"Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist."

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Source : "The Life and Letters of Sir Austen Chamberlain: Vol. II" by Sir Charles Petrie, Cassell, (p. 321), 1940.

Austen Chamberlain

#Scratches Quotes #Nonconformist Quotes

“The good traders are the ones who can hold their ground the majority of the month and participate in that small handful of trades that are windfalls. The real skill is in not LOSING money!”
“The reason I'm an actor is because I'll never be able to be perfect.”
“Every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing.”
“You have to own your days and name them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.”

Source : "A Thousand Clowns; Thieves; The Goodbye People".
“Reagan didn't want to wear his faith on his sleeve in a political way. Reagan thought that was egregious, and he was first turned off by it in the 1976 campaign when he thought Jimmy Carter was doing it. Reagan simply did not want ever to appear to be using faith for political purposes.”
“There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.”
“From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.”
“A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.”

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