"When eating an elephant take one bite at a time."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

#Elephants Quotes #Eating Quotes

“Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.”

Source : Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl
“I'm sick of these congress meetings. There no reason to meet again. As you know, if there's a congress, I usually win it.”
“God. Twice I speak it. I say His name in a futile attempt to understand. "But it's not your job to understand." That's me who answers. God never says anything. You think you're the only one he never answers? "Your job is to..." And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.”
“She saved my life...and Iâ€™ve ruined hers. They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had nothing to say. They were strangers, after all, on a brief and bizarre journey that had just reached a fork in the road, each of them now needing to find seperate paths.”
“Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will not forget, but will think the offence to himself the greater in that another profits by it; while he who receives the pleasure will either not remember it, or will consider the favour done him less than it really was.”

Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”
“Your toddler will be "good" if he feels like doing what you happen to want him to do and does not happen to feel like doing anything you would dislike. With a little cleverness you can organize life as a whole, and issues in particular, so that you both want the same thing most of the time.”

Source : Penelope Leach (2013). “Your Baby and Child”, p.324, Knopf
“Okay, I won't open it until then”
“I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.”

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