"We are African in origin and American in birth."

-- Timothy Thomas Fortune

“No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.”
“Those that consult more, make less mistakes”
“The oil industry is a stunning example of how science, technology, and mass production can divert an entire group of companies from their main task. ... No oil company gets as excited about the customers in its own backyard as about the oil in the Sahara Desert. ... But the truth is, it seems to me, that the industry begins with the needs of the customer for its products. From that primal position its definition moves steadily back stream to areas of progressively lesser importance until it finally comes to rest at the search for oil.”
“I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile.”

Source : Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.59, Macmillan
“The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.”

Source : Gabriel Zaid “So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance”, Paul Dry Books
“As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.”
“It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.”
“For others, in spite of myself, from myself.”

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