"Life grows lovely where you are."

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Source : Mathilde Blind (2012). “The Ascent of Man”, p.95, The Floating Press

Mathilde Blind

#Lovely Quotes #Where You Are Quotes #Grows Quotes

“[I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal whenever we produce electric power by steam engine, but there will be a time when there'll be no more coal to use. That time is not in the very distant future. ... Oil is too insignificant in its available supply to come into much consideration.”
“Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.”
“I think a goal is a goal and not all my goals are pretty.”
“The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.”
“Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap. No value is destroyed for you - only for the original owner.”

Source : Ida M. Tarbell (2009). “The History of the Standard Oil Company”, p.269, Cosimo, Inc.
“I don't mind my wife having to last word. In fact I'm delighted when she reaches it.”
“I wanna be somebody. I mean, I am somebody. I just wanna be a rich somebody.”

Source : "Paris Is Burning". Documentary, September 13, 1990.
“By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments.”

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