"At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did."

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Source : Otto Hahn (1970). “My life: the autobiography of a scientist”, MacDonald

Otto Hahn

#Firsts Quotes #Poison Quotes #Conventions Quotes

“People are grateful when you make a difference in their lives. That is the essence of any successful business”
“The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.”

Source : Waverley Root (1996). “Food”, William S. Konecky Associates
“Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.”

Source : Linda Barnes (2015). “Steel Guitar”, p.4, Open Road Media
“A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don't care about.”
“The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.”
“No new photographs until all the old ones have been used up.”
“Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.”
“I don't really write for an album. I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me. It's all a complete accident.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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