"I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?"

-- Victor Borge

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“I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.”
“The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. Why is this important? Because when we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen. A process is set in motion by which, inevitably and infallibly, heaven comes to our aid. Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.”
“I didn't have time to lose it. I didn't have time to lie down in the corner shop and scream and beat the floor until my hands bled. I didn't have time to miss Jack. Stroma kept on chattering away and getting excited over novelty spaghetti shapes and finding the joy in every little thing, and it occurred to me even then that she was probably looking after me, too.”
“It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.”

Source : Waverley Root (1996). “Food”, William S. Konecky Associates
“Be a physical chemist, an analytical chemist, an organic chemist, if you will; but above all, be a chemist.”

Source : "The Life of Ira Remsen" by F.H. Getmen, (pp. 70-71), 1940.
“Forgiveness is not a one-time-only event. It is a process.”

Source : Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living: Live Without Excuses and Love Without Regret”, p.179, Penguin
“The insistence on truthfulness does not disturb the freedom of the individual. The social obligation implied in Satyagraha turns the freedom of the individual into moral freedom. An atheist is free to say or to do what he likes, provided he does what he says and says what he does. So, in the context of social relations, the freedom of the individual is moral freedom.”
“I'm 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that's it. I don't think I'll ever be hip again!”

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