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“Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.”
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“You eat when you're hungry, and I'm not normally hungry in the mornings.”
Source : "Small Talk: Eric Bristow". Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2003.
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“If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.”
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“Big arms are fun, and if their training doesn't interfere with the rest of the program, wait till everybody's gone, like I do.”
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“Not everyone possesses boundless energy or a conspicuous talent. We are not equally blessed with great intellect or physical beauty or emotional strength. But we have all been given the same ability to be faithful.”
Source : Gigi Graham Tchividjian (2000). “Weatherproof Your Heart”, Spire
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“Human capital analysis starts with the assumption that individuals decide on their education, training, medical care, and other additions to knowledge and health by weighing the benefits and costs. Benefits include cultural and other non-monetary gains along with improvement in earnings and occupations, while costs usually depend mainly on the foregone value of the time spent on these investments.”
Source : "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.
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“Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.”
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“American airstrikes...create risks, especially if our intelligence there is rusty. The crucial step, and the one we should apply diplomatic pressure to try to achieve, is for Maliki to step back and share power with Sunnis while accepting decentralization of government. If Maliki does all that, it may still be possible to save Iraq. Without that, airstrikes would be a further waste in a land in which we've already squandered far, far too much.”