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“The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.”
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“Anybody from my soil is my responsibility.”
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“In contemporary society, advertising is everywhere. We cannot walk down the street, shop, watch television, go through our mail, log on to the Internet, read a newspaper or take a train without encountering it. Whether we are alone, with our friends or family, or in a crowd, advertising is always with us, if only on the label of something we are using.”
Source : Guy Cook (2001). “The Discourse of Advertising”, p.1, Psychology Press
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“[Addressed to Berlusconi who wanted to impose himself on the editorial style of "Il Giornale"] In the art of entrepeneurship, you are certainly a genius, and I an asshole. But in the art of argument the genius is me, and you the asshole.”
Source : "Montanelli e il Cavaliere: storia di un grande e di un piccolo uomo" by Marco Travaglio, 2009.
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“Giving up represents a choice you make when you decide not to take action on something over which you actually do have control.”
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“We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing -- half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.”
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“No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.”
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“Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.