"What comes from oneself is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link."

-- Eduardo Chillida

#Links Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction, it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more concerned with serving themselves than the lawyers.”
“Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.”

Source : "Harry Reid Gave An All-Out Defense Of Obama's Decision To Free Bergdahl On The Senate Floor" by Colin Campbell, www.businessinsider.com. June 4, 2014.
“My father, for his part, was not a man to begrudge anyone a divergent opinion; he'd have been fine if I had written some articles disagreeing with his policies, or even given interviews, as long as I was respectful and civil.”

Source : "Patti Davis on rebelling against Reagan" by Karin Tanabe, www.politico.com. December 12, 2011.
“We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.”

Source : Alan Mathison Turing, B. J. Copeland (2004). “The Essential Turing”, p.477, Oxford University Press
“If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.”

Source : Karl Albrecht, Ron Zemke (1985). “Service America!: Doing Business in the New Economy”, Irwin Professional Pub
“When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.”
“I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.”
“Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.”

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