“The influence of Sun Tzu on other North Vietnamese military strategists is harder to answer. Certainly many of the key leaders in Hanoi were aware of Sun Tzu and made use of his ideas - Vo Nguyen Giap applied many of these ideas in seeking out weak elements in the enemy's defenses, as did Truong Chinh, whose famous treatise, The Resistance Will Win (1947), cited the ideas of Mao Zedong as a model for the North Vietnamese to follow.”
“Mike [Mann], can you delete an e-mails you may have had with Keith [Trenberth] re AR4? Keith will do likewise...Can you also e-mail Gene and get him to do the same? I don't have his e-mail address...We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.”
“Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands, And of armèd men the hum; Lo, a nation's hosts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum Saying, Come, Freemen, Come! Ere your heritage be wasted, Said the quick alarming drum.”
Source : Bret Harte (2016). “Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist”, p.15, VM eBooks
“You may be sure that of all the moments of your life, the time you spend before the divine Sacrament will be that which will give you more strength during life and more consolation at the hour of your death and during eternity”
“The hard part was when I went into the studio with co-producer Eric Broucek, and he started slashing my demos. I always sweat that.”
“I was trying to match my mental image of the world, rather than the world itself, and mental images of objects aren't full of detail. If you think house, you're going to get something very general... Dropping detail made the photographs more general, like mental images.”
Source : Judy Fiskin, Christopher Knight (1988). “Judy Fiskin”, A R T Pr
“I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect”
“When you watch the game, be a student of the game.”
Andrew Carnegie Business magnate
Auguste Comte Philosopher
Edward Bellamy Author
Henry George Writer
Herbert Spencer Philosopher
Lester Frank Ward
Samuel Gompers Labor Union Leader
Thorstein Veblen Economist
Walter Rauschenbusch
