"Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war."

-- Allan Lichtman

#War Quotes #Achievement Quotes #President Quotes

“I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.”

Source : Jay Fields, Shane Harvie, Martin Fowler, Kent Beck (2009). “Refactoring: Ruby Edition”, p.74, Pearson Education
“Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.”

Source : "Michael Morpurgo's top tips for writing". www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2011.
“Adventures are funny things. Many are merely happy accidentsâ€”a single spark that ignites an unexpected chain of events. But some adventures are meant for you and you alone. And whether you want them or not, they seek you out of a great crowd and take you somewhere you never thought youâ€™d go. Often, these unlooked for adventures require a sacrifice too great to imagine.”

Source : Wayne Thomas Batson (2006). “The Final Storm”, p.16, Thomas Nelson Inc
“He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.”
“In New York, the dunk is not the thing. To break somebody down and shoot a J-that's as big as a dunk in New York.”
“We live in a bizarre world - there are cameras in our house!”
“The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces.”
“Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.”

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