"If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well."

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Source : EVELYN WAUGH (1958). “VILE BODIES & BLACK MISCHIEF”

Evelyn Waugh

“Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt.”

Source : Nolan Ryan, Skip Bayless, Tom House (1991). “Nolan Ryan's Pitcher's Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Power, Precision, and Long-Term Performance”, p.30, Simon and Schuster
“Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did not feel his presence beside me-only his absence."”
“I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better.”
“When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.”
“What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?”
“Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself.”
“As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.”
“Seek refuge in Mary because she is the city of refuge. We know that Moses set up three cities of refuge for anyone who inadvertently killed his neighbor. Now the Lord has established a refuge of mercy, Mary, even for those who deliberately commit evil. Mary provides shelter and strength for the sinner.”

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