"Is there a single person on whom I can press belief? No sir. All I can do is say, Here's how it went. Here's what I saw. I've been there and am going back. Make of it what you will."

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Source : Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, Atlantic Monthly Press

Leif Enger

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“I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the facts directly from people like me.”

Source : "Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939". Book by Alvin D. Coox, p. 1184, 1990.
“One curious result of this inertia, which deserves to rank among the fundamental 'laws' of nature, is that when a discovery has finally won tardy recognition it is usually found to have been anticipated, often with cogent reasons and in great detail.”
“My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law.”
“In spite of all the cultural restrictions, in spite of marital or political difficulties, a strong woman continues to create and makes the world go round, such as Abigail Adams and Alexandra Bergson, Harriet Scott, and Emily Dickinson all did. History is full of women creators in the arts, many of whom created under oppressive circumstances.”

Source : Source: www.barbaraharbach.com
“There is no medicine to cure hatred.”
“I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.”
“Less is more. Happiness is found close to the necessities of life, not in needless complexity and meaningless multiplicity of choice.”

Source : Peter Dale Scott (2007). “The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America”, p.13, Univ of California Press
“The difference between a leadership and a command company can be very great indeed, because in a hierarchical situation, people who have concerns about reactions against themselves would simply not put forward negative information.”

Source : Marvin Bower (1997). “The Will to Lead: Running a Business with a Network of Leaders”, p.34, Harvard Business Press

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