"There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

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“If you can't be bothered to work on Saturday, don't bother to come in on Sunday.”
“This is one of the innovatorâ€™s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.”
“You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open.”
“It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently.”

Source : "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.
“I like my groundstrokes, I can say. I like it. That's my game - I'm a groundstroke player and I play pretty aggressive.”
“One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate tours. When Mrs. Coolidge passed the chicken pens she paused to ask the man in charge if the rooster copulates more than once each day. "Dozens of times, was the reply." "Please tell that to the President," Mrs. Coolidge requested. When the President passed the pens and was told about the roosters, he asked "Same hen every time?" "Oh no, Mr. President, a different one each time." The President nodded slowly, then said, "Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge."”
“George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon,”
“Persistence and discipline. Without those two, you have nothing, no matter how talented you are.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com

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