"No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning."

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Source : "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

Cyril Connolly

#Morning Quotes #Men Quotes #Cities Quotes

“Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols.”

Source : Kenneth Burke (1969). “A Rhetoric of Motives”, p.43, Univ of California Press
“Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc., which will appear in the next generation of human organizations will drive our present organizational forms, with their clumsy nervous systems, into extinction.”
“Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.”

Source : "Fictional character: Master Li Mu Bai". "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", www.imdb.com. 2000.
“I've hurt you terribly my love, and I'll hunt you again during the next fifty years. And you are going to hurt me, Ian-never I hope as much as you are hurting me now. But if that's the way it has to be, then I'll endure it, because the only alternative is to live without you, and that is no life at all. And the difference is that I know it, and you don't... not yet...”
“We serve life, not because it is broken, but because it is holy.”
“I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.”
“You can't just have a thought. You have to follow the thought through. But everything starts with the thought.”
“A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?”

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