"Meaning, however, is no great matter."

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Source : Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly leaves, by C.S.C.”, p.108

Charles Stuart Calverley

“To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.”
“Hostess Bakery plants shut down due to a workers' strike. It was split up. The State Department hired all the Twinkies, the Secret Service hired all the HoHos, the generals are sleeping with the Cupcakes and the voters sent all the Ding Dongs to Congress.”
“Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables.”
“One of the difficulties in getting to the bottom of the poor prospects for retirement is that the policy and intellectual elites, including corporate leadership, who are dealing with this problem, rarely have the same difficulties as the great majority of middle-income Americans.”

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“When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.”
“Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed...”
“Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into trouble...”
“The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.”

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