"It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness!"

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Mallory Ortberg

#Return Quotes #Rudeness Quotes #Tempting Quotes

“Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.”

Source : "Forbes", Forbes Incorporated, p. 42, 1953.
“Cross-examination is beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. ... Cross-examination, not trial by jury, is the great and permanent contribution of the Anglo-American system of law to improved methods of trial-procedure.”

Source : John Henry Wigmore (1923). “A Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law: Including the Statutes and Judicial Decisions of All Jurisdictions of the United States and Canada”
“There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.”
“The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.”

Source : "On The Little Black Dress" by Andre Leon Talley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2013.
“Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write "Tough and Competent" on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control.”

Source : "The Kranz Dictum". Gene Kranz's address to his branch and flight control team on the Monday morning following the Apollo 1 disaster, January 30, 1967.
“I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what.”
“Power is never measured by what you can give but by what you can actually take!”
“The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct”

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