"as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility."

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Source : Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.182, Wildside Press LLC

Margaret Deland

#Manners Quotes #Incompatibility Quotes #Truthfulness Quotes

“There were decades I didn't play sober. I thought, Who would want to? But at some point, I decided that if it was important enough to me to keep doing it as art, I should do it with all my tools.”
“San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate”
“Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.”
“Beside him a tiny elderly woman was leaning on a cane, studying him with curiosity. Since good manners seemed to require that he speak to her, Jon cast about for some sort of polite conversation pertinent to the occasion. â€œI hate funerals, donâ€™t you?â€ He said. â€œI rather like them,â€ she said smugly. â€œAt my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.”
“I'm following a real event and real people.”
“Where I come from, there's no common enemy, there's no "why." There's no, "I hate white people."”
“Profit doesn't appear as the goal but as a side effect of pursuing motivating principles.”

Source : "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, 2011.
“I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios and higher-than-average yield. Academic studies have shown that a strategy of buying out-of-favor stocks with low P/E, price-to-book and price-to-cash flow ratios outperforms the market pretty consistently over long periods of time.”

Source : "Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Classic Edition". Book by David Dreman, May 18, 1998.

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