"Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows."

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Source : Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.126

Charles Buxton

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“I've always loved that film ['The Three Caballeros'], and we were looking for a way to apply it to our own work, and 'Trolls' was it - psychedelic, musical and kinetic insanity.”
“A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.”
“Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon.”

Source : Comment about Woodrow Wilson and Georges Clemenceau in 1919. "International Relations" article in The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1993.
“There is no love; there are only proofs of love. Whatever love I might feel in my heart, others will see only my action.”
“When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.”
“When you're working on a game that has a budget of tens of millions of dollars and you have to sell millions and millions and millions of copies to break even, you have a lot more layers between you and the audience. You have a marketing department, and there's a different marketing department for every continent, and the parent company has stockholders, and all that kind of stuff.”
“An eye for an eye til everyone is blind.”
“In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.”

Source : "The Future As History". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter III, part 10, The Mastery of Technology, p. 161, 1960.

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