"One of the troubles with signings is that you are surrounded by children, and some of them have got colds."

-- Tony Ross

#Children Quotes #Trouble Quotes #Signing Quotes

“Take time to pray and listen to God...say, 'Sir, what should I say at this moment? What should I do? My ears are open and my eyes are open. I'm listening.'”
“We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.”
“In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.”

Source : Frank Hyneman Knight (1997). “The Ethics of Competition”, p.191, Transaction Publishers
“The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.”
“As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.”
“Be the Mick Jagger of the mailroom, the Warren Buffet of bookkeeping and the Bono of stapler selling.”
“...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”
“Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only possible for the person whose mind is open to contradictions and well-practiced in free conjecture.”

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