"The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down."

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Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.235, Open Road Media

Beryl Markham

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“There are no one dimensional people.”

Source : Source: youknowigotsoul.com
“I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.”
“Stoutly as we may affirm that our disasters and vices are chargeable to luck, we never dream of ascribing our meritorious deeds, in the slightest degree to its agency. In such cases we quite unconsciously blink out of sight the magic power of the latter principle, so wondrous and all-controlling in its influence at other times, and coolly appropriate to ourselves not merely the lion's share, but the whole glory of our position.”
“Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.”
“You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.”
“We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.”

Source : Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.64, Routledge
“I will never vote Democrat again, they are Communists.”
“New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.”

Source : Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.76, Penguin

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