"Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good."

-- Linus Pauling

#Agreement Quotes #Long Quotes #Treaties Quotes

“Other people write about the bling and the booty. I write about the pus and the gnats. To me, that's beautiful.”
“travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.”

Source : Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize that I was fooled into thinking I'd written the story. I hadn't-I had just typed for a long time. So then I have to carve out a story from the 25 or so pages. It's in there somewhere-but I have to find it. I'll then write a third, fourth, and fifth draft, and so on.”
“A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.”
“It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind.”
“That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.”
“Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.”

Source : James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.221, BoD – Books on Demand
“Nothing lasts forever, so what makes love the exception.”

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