"Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow."

-- Sharyn McCrumb

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“You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.”
“Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions.”
“Driving stock up from one day to the next is not what we are about. We are about building a good company and performing for the long term. I know everyone says that, that sounds trite when I repeat it that way, but that is and has always been our attitude about our business. If we do the right things, the stock price will take care of itself, and our shareholders will be rewarded.”

Source : "The CEO Behind Costco". Interview with David Gardner, www.fool.com. January 18, 2005.
“My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian”
“History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.”
“I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.”
“It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.”

Source : Eliza Acton (1860). “Modern Cookery, for Private Families: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts, in which the Principles of Baron Liebig and Other Eminent Writers Have Been as Much as Possible Applied and Explained”, p.11
“Spring goeth all in white, / Crowned with milk-white may: / In fleecy flocks of light / O'er heaven the white clouds stray.”

Source : Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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