"My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them."

Source : "Sayings of the Century". Book by Nigel Rees, 1984.

Nigel Rees

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“By definition, if man contributes anything toward acceptance by God, he loses everything. God expects man to be the recipient, not the originator. Jesus paid it all, not 99% of it. Paul wrote, "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast"”
“Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit.”
“A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.”
“You can live your dreams if you can embrace change. It's by taking chances that you'll learn how to be brave.”
“It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art.”

Source : James Elkins (2011). “What Photography Is”, p.124, Routledge
“The markets are unforgiving, and emotional trading always results in losses.”

Source : Alexander Elder (2014). “The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management”, p.16, John Wiley & Sons
“The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap creative tension.”
“There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.”

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