"Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm."

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Source : C. Wright Mills (2002). “White Collar: The American Middle Classes”, p.36, Oxford University Press

C. Wright Mills

#Business Quotes #Father Quotes #Winning Quotes

“Over the years, my books have been given a lot more credence than they should. I don't think people should take them quite that seriously. They're not a theological treatise; they were never intended to be. I find myself in awkward situations sometimes because people think I'm some great authority on spiritual warfare, but I'm not. I never have been.”
“I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.”
“The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.”
“The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.”

Source : Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick (2013). “The Love Dare Day by Day: A Year of Devotions for Couples”, p.107, B&H Publishing Group
“The world is filled to suffocating. Man has placed his token on every stone. Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged. We know that a picture is but a space in which a variety of images, none of them original, blend and clash.”
“I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out a winner, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does.”
“I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.”
“Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.”

Source : Rudolf Karl Bultmann, Schubert Miles Ogden (1985). “New Testament and mythology and other basic writings”

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