"I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger."

-- Jeff Zucker

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“'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.”
“The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.”

Source : James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.1978, Рипол Классик
“All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying bodies and portions of bodies once warm living and tender parts of Irish men and youths - all these horrors in Flanders or the Gallipoli Peninsula, are all items in the price Ireland pays for being part of the British Empire.”

Source : James Connolly (1988). “Collected Works: Labour and Easter Week”
“Perfume puts the finishing touch to elegance - a detail that subtly underscores the look, an invisible extra that completes a man and a woman's personality. Without it there is something missing.”
“Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end.”

Source : "Nicolas Roeg: 'I don't want to be ahead of my time'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2011.
“At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.”

Source : "The American Action Painter," Art News, Dec. 1952
“I left Indiana, and I ain't been back since. I've been doing comedy and paying my bills.”

Source : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 19, 2003.
“In a Democracy, the real rulers are the dexterous manipulators of votes, with their placemen, the mechanics who so skillfully operate the hidden springs which move the puppets in the arena of democratic elections. Men of this kind are ever ready with loud speeches lauding equality; in reality, they rule the people as any despot or military dictator might rule it.”

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