"And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought."

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Source : Sir Arthur Bryant, Alan Brooke Alanbrooke (Viscount) (1957). “The Turn of the Tide: A History of the War Years Based on the Diares of Field-Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff”

Arthur Bryant

#Farewell Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Brain Quotes

“A sign that your good deed has been accepted is that you do more good deeds after it.”
“You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.”

Source : Interview with David Medsker, www.bullz-eye.com. February 3, 2006.
“Every time I went out, someone had to look at me or talk to me, and I just got sick of it. Now I have a very anonymous life, which I really love, and then I come to New York, and people bug out of me.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God.”
“If shadows were caused by the interplay between light and Life, a child's was still forming. An adult's was inextricably bound to his body, but a child had a tenuous relationship to his own permanence, and thus, his own shadow.”

Source : Anne Ursu, Eric Fortune (2007). “The Shadow Thieves”, p.167, Simon and Schuster
“We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.”
“All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow.”
“Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.”

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