"A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. She should go far. The sooner she starts, the better. The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind."

-- Joseph Stilwell

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“Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.”
“However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.”
“Get off me. You weigh more than the doors to your home.”
“The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.”
“Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.”
“Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.”
“Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality”
“A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good or bad, it seems to me that I have an abundance of stories to tell. And the things I see, the things that happen to me, continually renew the supply.”

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