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Richard Adams

"At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit's idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him."

-- Richard Adams

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“All parts of the society need to feel that the police service is their police service, and that does not happen unless all parts of society are represented in the police”
“What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?”
“If you're listening to a symphony, you're getting all the information, including the audience around you, the delay from the sides of the concert hall, the whole thing. If one of those musicians is sharply out of tune or starts to play a different piece of music than all the others in the orchestra, you immediately notice. When you analyze systems by listening, you can just listen, and you can tell whether the system is healthy or unhealthy. What I've created for you is a perfect model of how we should be listening to our stock market, rather than trying to see it graphically.”
“I was born, have lived, and will die free.”
“I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.”
“School would be way more tolerable if everyone wasnâ€™t so afraid to be who they really are. And if everyone else would let them.”
“To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.”

Source : Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”
“Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty.”

Source : Felix G. Rohatyn (1983). “The twenty-year century: essays on economics and public finance”, Random House (NY)

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