"War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else."

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Source : Major General Smedley Butler's speech, 1933.

Smedley Butler

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“The artist and the multitude are natural enemies. They always will be, both ways. The artist is an enemy of the multitude, and the multitude is the enemy of the artist. And when the disguise comes off and they're both standing facing one another, they're just there at odds end.”

Source : Robert Altman, David Sterritt (2000). “Robert Altman: Interviews”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I often get asked by people 'Is your Twitter real?' and things of that nature. I'm never sure how to respond to that. My Twitter account is completely 'real' in that everything I tweet is something I have earnestly thought or something that has actually happened to me.”

Source : Source: logger.believermag.com
“[Some people] put their work on the internet and check every day how many people look, how many people made contact, but I don't have internet, I don't have a hand-phone, I don't have fax, I don't have email. I just have old-fashioned telephone and letters.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Trying to get the sentences right and the structure of the narration right is about as big a job as I can handle. But I also know that if you handle that job properly, everything else just clicks into place.”
“If I play, it will be for one reason: my fans.”
“Rolen's the perfect baseball player. It's his tenacity, his preparation, the way he plays. He tries to do everything fundamentally sound. And he puts the team team first-there's no fanfare with him.”
“Understand that you need to sell you and your ideas in order to advance your career, gain more respect, and increase your success, influence and income.”

Source : Jay Abraham (2000). “Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition”, p.11, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
“There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option."”

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