"You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself."

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Source : Mikhail Bulgakov (1967). “The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov”

Mikhail Bulgakov

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“When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.”
“It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.”
“I've worked with farmers in Zimbabwe who've lost their lands. I've worked with people in Venezuela, under threat of kidnappings, whose external world is unstable. But they have very strong social connections with their family and friends. And as a result, they're able to maintain a greater level of happiness and optimism than I've seen from bankers, consultants, or salespeople who are on the road all the time, who follow jobs separated from their families, and, as a result, find themselves missing out on the happiness that comes from those very connections that they severed.”
“I didn't know the extent of American obsession with Uganda until I got there and saw it. You ride in the plane and it's filled with American missionaries. Uganda is the No. 1 destination for American missionaries in the world.”
“We are here to help one another along life's journey.”
“Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.”
“It's the twenty-first century." I told Tank. "Women drive." "Only in my bed," Tank said. "Never in my car.”
“I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.”

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