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“The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.”
Source : James M. Cain (2010). “Mildred Pierce”, p.184, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
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“The most important rule is to formulate, clearly and precisely, the goal to be reached, and then to retain it unswervingly in mind throughout all the stages of the execution, which are often long and complex.”
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“In general, the more one augments the number of divisions of the productions of nature, the more one approaches the truth, since in nature only individuals exist, while genera, orders, and classes only exist in our imagination.”
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“The people who will succeed fifteen years from now, the countries which will succeed, are those which are most based on a sustainable vision of the world. That is what we should be training people to do”
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“New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.”
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“Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's pleasure in unlocking and revealing these secrets.”
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“The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.”
Source : "Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations)". Book by M.P. Singh, p. 302, January 1, 2005.
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“Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.”