"After I finished the Tycoons - on post-Civil War development - I realized how much I didn't know about the first half of the century, even though there had obviously been an enormous amount of development, so I read about and thought about that for a couple of years before I decided I was ready for a book."

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Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

Charles R. Morris

#Couple Quotes #War Quotes #Book Quotes

“My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.”
“All presidents - particularly war presidents, presidents inclined to the imperial presidency - invoke Abraham Lincoln as a justification, but they omit these three defenses of Lincoln's strong actions. Suspend habeas, blockade, increase army without congress, arrest Maryland legislators, etc.”
“Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.”
“In order of importance to me are: 1) the long term trend, 2) the current chart pattern, and 3)picking a good spot to buy or sell.”
“I have no magic formula. The only way I know to win is through hard work.”
“It was very hard to make 'Funny Face' in Paris because making movies is difficult and making a movie in a city that was glorious, that was unique and surprising, to get it, to put it on film you have to make choices and reject a lot of things so you're always wondering: 'Am I doing it right?”

Source : "Legendary Musicals Director Stanley Donen On Audrey Hepburn and 'Dancing With The Stars' (Q&A)". Interview with Rebecca Leffler, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 22, 2012.
“wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade.”

Source : Emma Goldman (1969). “Anarchism: And Other Essays”, p.54, Courier Corporation
“I'm not a visionary, but I've spent half my life drawing things Imagined, Remembered, and Observed, comparing the differences between them, and my study confirms that "the difference between night and day / is not as great as people say."”

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