"The nearest thing to immortality in this world is a government bureau."

-- Hugh S. Johnson

#Government Quotes #World Quotes #Immortality Quotes

“If any of my competitors were drowning, I'd stick a hose in their mouth and turn on the water. It is ridiculous to call this an industry. This is not. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. You're talking about the American way - of survival of the fittest.”
“Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.”
“We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.”
“I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.”
“Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.”
“Your son went into your kitchen and took a kitchen knife....”
“After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier and better days, "No weight nor mass nor beauty of execution can outweigh one grain or fragment of thought.”

Source : Emily Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd, Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1902). “Poems”
“Far, far from the clergy be the love of novelty!”

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