"It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war."

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Source : Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.4

Richard Cobden

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“You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.”
“I very rarely get nervous as an actor. Very rarely.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.”
“The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.”
“What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.”
“Most of my friends are skaters or were skaters at one time, so they obviously relate.”
“Let's acknowledge that men reach for opportunities more quickly and more easily than women. So often as managers, we give the job to whoever starts solving the problem, to whoever jumps in. Since we know men will jump in faster than women in so many circumstances, we have to slow down and encourage more women to sit at more tables.”
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