"Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?"

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Source : Herb Caen (1958). “New Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area”

Herb Caen

#Nice Quotes #San Francisco Quotes #People Quotes

“The cooperation of navies from around the world promises high tactical value for the ships, aircraft, and divers involved; while demonstrating international resolve in defending maritime security against potential threats.”
“The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty and untouchable... and knows no kindness with all its beauty.”
“Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.”
“We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings...”

Source : Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.222, Xist Publishing
“Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years.”

Source : Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful”, p.189, Profile Books
“Sometimes they do things to make me do the opposite of what they think, I think, they think, I am going to do.”
“It's extremely hard to build a company with a product that everyone loves, is free and has no business model, and then to innovate a business model. I did that with Kazaa, had half a billion downloads but that wasn't a sustainable business.”
“Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosaic, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.”

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