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“Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”
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“I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.”
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“Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”
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“Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.”
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“Speech should be fruitful as well as free.”
Source : Commission on Freedom of the Press, Zechariah Chafee (1947). “Government and Mass Communications”, Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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“The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.”
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“Stonehenge had an aura but it was also just stone. Then in the sixties, it became a great hedonistic, hippie, druid, rock-n-roll party site. There are amazing pictures of people up on the stones going wild and that's the image I recreated for my model of the project: full access to everyone. I even invented a Stonehenge soccer team that uses spaces between the stones as goals.”
Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.
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“Isn't it amazing how much better you listen when you are in need?”
Source : John Layfield (2007). “Have More Money Now”, p.3, Simon and Schuster