"Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business."

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Source : Virginia Cary Hudson (1964). “O Ye Jigs & Juleps”

Virginia Cary Hudson

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Listening Quotes

“One says that money doesn't buy happiness. Without a doubt, one was speaking of the money of others.”
“As the industry has matured, real estate has become a very accepted investment. Institutions have used core investments to get comfortable with real estate as an asset class, and now that they're comfortable they're moving up the risk spectrum.”
“Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy.”
“It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'”
“Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.”

Source : Maurice Druon (1964). “The memoirs of Zeus”
“Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.”
“I think any entertainer just sort of goes along with whatever comes along.”
“In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre of so many young lives. No matter how brutal the crime, you will always get glorification of its heroism and tradition from the eunuchs of bourgeois culture.”

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