"Even with talent, it's who you meet at the right time that tips the scales."

-- Richard Briers

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“Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.”
“The most important thing you wear is your personality.”
“A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong. The spectacle is nearly always comic.”
“My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.”

Source : Scott Lynch (2006). “The Lies of Locke Lamora”, p.291, Spectra
“Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.”
“A new day brings us a tomorrow.”
“For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.”
“Bravely you jog along with the rope of class distinction drawing closer, close, tighter, tighter around you... I see it and know it, but I cannot help you... I am only an unnecessary, little, bush commoner, I am only a - woman.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.463, The Floating Press

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