"Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis"

-- Ian Jack

#Acropolis Quotes #Newspapers Quotes #Columns Quotes

“All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.”

Source : Song: The Story
“You must look at the processes of motion in the macrocosmos and microcosmos accurately, and copy them!”

Source : Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (2000). “The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.15, Gill & Macmillan Ltd
“Know that there is nothing you can't aspire to do. Take offense. Bide your time. Pick your battles. Take revenge when you can - and never pull the ladder up after you.”
“Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers”
“Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon his freedom and a limitation of his right to make the most of himself in order that he may rise in the scale of the social and economic order in which he lives. The notion that all human beings born into this world enter at birth into a definite social and economic classification, in which classification they must remain permanently through life, is wholly false and fatal to a progressive civilization.”
“Make your workplace into showcase that can be understood byÂ everyone at a glance. In terms of quality, it means to make the defects immediately apparent. In terms of quantity, it means that progress or delay, measured against the plan, and is made immediately apparent. When this is done, problems can be discovered immediately, and everyone can initiate improvement plans.”
“Not only are the studies themselves often lacking even face value, but they also drain badly needed funds away from patient care needs.”
“Fast cars are my only vice.”

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