"There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success."

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Source : Thomas Boswell (1989). “The heart of the order”, Doubleday Books

Thomas Boswell

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“Natural disasters in Bolivia have been getting worse with the passage of time. It's brought about by a system: the capitalist system, the unbridled industrialization of the resources of the Planet Earth.”
“The determination to win is the better part of winning.”
“We are human, and we suffer, and unlike the animals on the farm, we are self-aware, and we know that we suffer, and it doesn't hurt more or less if God caused it or could stop it, at least for me. I am definitely of the school that believes God has bigger stuff to worry about than me.”
“Law reforms in the US, ostensibly enacted to prohibit racism, have proven ineffective because they focus on bad intentions of individuals and fail to comprehend population-level conditions.”

Source : "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.
“No other man will have you”
“To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.”
“The Australian divisions and the New Zealanders had become what they were to remain for the rest of the war the spearhead of the British Army”
“Emphasis in China is done aggressively. Sometimes, this is done rudely, but most of the time it's just done routinely. It's just a normal thing in the course of your encounters with Chinese people in every walk of life.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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