"Habit is ten times nature."

-- Duke of Wellington

“I have no problem with bands using participant financing schemes like Kickstarter and such. I've said many times that I think they're part of the new way bands and their audience interact and they can be a fantastic resource, enabling bands to do things essentially in cooperation with their audience. It's pretty amazing, actually.”
“I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue.”

Source : Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin
“Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.”

Source : 'Dreamers' (1918)
“I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.”
“Personality and salesmanship do not produce except in the competitive sense.”
“If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then thereâ€™s nothing that you cannot justify. Thereâ€™s nothing you canâ€™t survive, because thereâ€™s nothing that you will not do.”

Source : Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.141, Vintage
“I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.”
“Education is a slow moving but powerful force”

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