"Strength is a matter of a made up mind."

-- John Beecher

#Being Strong Quotes #Mind Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into a direct and immediate relationship with their constituents, and therefore under more and direct and immediate control.”

Source : "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 1, Leaders and Followers, p. 18, 1985.
“The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.”

Source : John Jakes (2012). “California Gold”, p.28, Open Road Media
“The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea.”
“Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science.Â Itâ€™s also a terrific account of survival on our wild blue planet.”
“I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse and blameless kind of society.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“My primary responsibility is to be funny,”
“From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to a minimum if it cannot be eliminated altogether, say, by automation. From the point of view of the workman, it is a "disutility"; to work is to make a sacrifice of one's leisure and comfort, and wages are a kind of compensation for the sacrifice.”
“Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.”

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