"A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand."

-- Karl Kraus

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“In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.”
“Jobs will come back when the economy recovers, but they will never be the same.”

Source : Maynard Webb, Carlye Adler (2013). “Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship”, p.56, John Wiley & Sons
“Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.”
“When the Bible itself becomes irksome, inquire whether you have not been spoiling your appetite by sweetmeats and renounce them; and believe that the Word is the wire along which the voice of God will certainly come to you if the heart is hushed and the attention fixed.”
“I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.”

Source : Interview with Lisa Marie Presley, www.fanpop.com.
“Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware.”
“I'm honestly flattered and humbled that anyone would show interest in something I've done, forever.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I'm also the first straight woman to host this in 20 years, so, we finally made it, straight people.”

Source : "Obama Unleashes 'Inner Angst' in 4th Q of Presidency". Cecily Strong's remarks at 2015 White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, D.C., www.truthrevolt.org. April 26, 2015.

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