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“Up to here, in general, we have mainly stuffed the brain of the young people with a indigestible multitude of varios notions, without thinking about enough of the prime necessity to form their character.”
Source : "Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir". Book by Hélène Claparède-Spir, p.58, 1937.
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“People really are our most important resource, and people who don't realize that and choose not to live that way, choose not to lead that way, are paying a price for that in many of our companies, many of our organizations.”
Source : "Capt. Chesley Sullenberger". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. June 15, 2012.
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“The more you can distract yourself, the better.”
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“I've always approached television from a little more cinematic perspective, if not a much more cinematic perspective because of the shows I have been fortunate enough to work on.”
Source : Source: collider.com
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“If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did.”
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“I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.”
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“Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.”
Source : 1789 Aphorisms on Art, no.237, (published 1831).
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“When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.”