"War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time."

-- John Hay Beith

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“If we judge others, it is because we are judging something in ourselves of which we are unaware.”
“When we worked at the pottery, we did learn to make pots, that is, the physical act of making the pot. We learned to control clay, to put it where you want it and not just wherever it wanted to go, and that was valuable. At the end of about six months, though, I think if that was all we had, we may have been inclined to leave because the workshop did not challenge us so much as living with [Bernard] Leach did.”
“Trying your best is bringing your best... that's the way to do it! Desire and passion is everything.”
“If it's not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it's a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.”
“After a few months you stop noticing every incarnation of radicalism and violence. It is so saturated into your reality that it practically fades into the scenery.”

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“Progress is a set of assumptions.”
“It makes me ill how callously people talk about ripping their clients off I donâ€™t know of any illegal behavior, but will people push the envelope and pitch lucrative and complicated products to clients even if they are not the simplest investments or the ones most directly aligned with the clientâ€™s goals? Absolutely. Every day, in fact.”
“He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little.”

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