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“Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.”
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“Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane.”
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“I try to relax and enjoy it. I don't really get nervous, I get excited! I love training, but my main excitement comes from when I'm racing and the better the standard of people I'm racing, the more excited I get and the more 'up for it' I get.”
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“Don't frown beautiful, you fascinate me.”
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“Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.”
Source : Isabella Lucy Bird (2010). “Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: Volume 1: An Account of Travels in the Interior, Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikkô and Isé”, p.45, Cambridge University Press
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“There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes, and, what is more, a readiness to be pleased with the other's ways; a sense on each side of having had the better of the bargain; an undercurrent of surprise and thankfulness at one's good luck.”
Source : Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”
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“The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance of payments.”
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“All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.”
Source : Chuck Jones (1999). “Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist”, p.61, Macmillan
