"She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it."

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Beverly Cleary

#Real Quotes #Mean Quotes #Talent Quotes

“The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.”
“Anarchism is for liberty, and neither for nor against anything else. Anarchy is the mother of co-operation, yes, just as liberty is the mother of order; but, as a matter of definition, liberty is not order nor is Anarchism co-operation. I define Anarchism as the belief in the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality of liberty; or, in other words, as the belief in every liberty except the liberty to invade.”

Source : Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub
“Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent perfect peace is an almost meaningless abstraction. Struggle and competition are stimulating, but when they degenerate into conflict it is usually both destructive and disruptive. The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line...”
“For the first and only time, I was more worried about getting hurt by the crowd than by the guy I was fighting. I got a pretty good blast when introduced. The crowd was hollering and raising hell. I looked around for my bodyguard, a colorful New York character named Wild Bill Lyons, who packed two pearl-handled pistols and used to talk a lot about his days in the West. Wild Bill was under the ring, hiding.”
“The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.”
“Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far.”

Source : "BASEBALL; Marge Schott: Baseball's Big Red Headache" by Ira Berkow, www.nytimes.com. November 29, 1992.
“As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.”
“Man's will and God's grace rise and fall together”

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