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“If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.”
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“There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.”
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“I wrote in the mornings, often in cafes, on the way to the office. I gave myself a daily word minimum, usually 750. I tried to save revision for the weekends, when I had more consecutive hours to string together.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.”
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“The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.”
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“The customer is always right' may have become a standard motto in the world of business, but the idea that 'the audience is always right,' has yet to make much of an impression on the world of presentation, even though for the duration of the presentation at least, the audience is the speaker's only customer.”
Source : Max Atkinson (2005). “Lend Me Your Ears: All You Need to Know about Making Speeches and Presentations”, p.14, Oxford University Press
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“When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.”
Source : Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.105, Baen Books
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“Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.”
Source : "Stay Awake". Book by Dan Chaon, 2012.
