"Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started."

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Source : William Safire (1988). “You could look it up: more on language”, Crown

William Safire

“Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.”
“I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.”
“There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.”

Source : Catherine Mumford Booth (1883). “Aggressive Christianity: Practical Sermons”
“The secret to success in business, and in life, is to serve others. Put others first in all you do.”
“If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.”
“The maddening thing for someone with a Western scientific turn of mind is that itâ€™s not whatâ€™s in your pack that separates the quick from the dead. Itâ€™s not even whatâ€™s in your mind. Corny as it sounds, itâ€™s whatâ€™s in your heart.”

Source : Laurence Gonzales (2017). “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company
“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
“When you think of a collaboration, you think about people being in the same space.”

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