"In Washington, success is just a training course for failure."

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Source : Simon Hoggart (1990). “America: A User's Guide”, HarperCollins

Simon Hoggart

#Training Quotes

“I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.”
“Knowing they were in the same city again made the missing him flare up inside her. In her stomach. Why were people always going on and on about the heart? Almost everything Levi happened in Cathâ€™s stomach.”
“Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.”
“A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.”
“True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'.”
“The best stories infuse wonder,”

Source : "What Are The Clues To A Good Story?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. June 7, 2013.
“Fashion is a mirror of the era in which we live. Why should the magazine be disconnected from reality? It's not like in the past.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.”

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