"Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it."

-- A. G. Gaston

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“No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.”
“She had had no idea what it would do to her seeing him in a suit.”
“What I've noticed is that people who love what they do, regardless of what that might be, tend to live longer.”

Source : "Philip Glass: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 9, 2009.
“Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens Metternich. Both men were artificers, able to hold off the future by building a fragile present out of pieces of the past.”

Source : Robert D. Kaplan (2014). “Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History”, p.54, Picador
“Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.”
“Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.”
“Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make my way to you, without a mouth I can swear your name. Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you with my heart as with a hand. Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat. And if you consume my brain with fire, I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.”
“The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own.”

Source : "The Shining Girls". Book by Lauren Beukes, 2013.

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