"The uniform of polish uhlan makes even the youngest, inexperienced boy looks like he's made from steel."

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Source : The National Geographic, August 1926.

Maynard Owen Williams

#Boys Quotes #Looks Quotes #Uniforms Quotes

“I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'”
“The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big.”

Source : Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.251, Courier Corporation
“I love dessert. I can't be guilty about it because I have to taste everything. I experiment.”
“Utopias are often just premature truths.”
“By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, Web 2.0 provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value of the free labor provided by the very, very many and concentrate it into the hands of the very, very few.”

Source : "Web 2.0lier than thou" by Nicholas G. Carr, www.roughtype.com. October 23, 2006.
“Teams, not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern organizations. This is where the "rubber stamp meets the road"; unless teams can learn, the organization cannot learn.”
“When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't.”
“I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism.”

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