"Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe."

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Source : Karen Kingston (1997). “Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui”, Broadway

Claud Cockburn

#Effectiveness Quotes #Cash Quotes #Underestimate Quotes

“Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.”

Source : "Paladin of the Lost Hour". Novelette by Harlan Ellison, 1985.
“I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.”
“He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.”
“There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.”
“All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.”
“The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.”
“Audiences and critics they don't like seeing what happens in real life. Why do you think comedies make all the money at the box office? People want to go and laugh. I can understand that.”
“No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.”

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