"... All that we may ever hope to establish in historical research are facts and conditions but never causes."

-- Otto E. Neugebauer

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“It's about what happens on stage, whether we can deliver it in a hungry way that is who we are in our hearts.”
“History is but the polemics of the victor.”
“I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.”
“The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.”
“Those who devise better methods of utilizing manpower, tools, machinery, materials and facilities are making real contributions toward our national security. Today, these ideas are a form of insurance for our national security; tomorrow, this same progressive thinking is insurance for our individual security-it is, in effect, job insurance.”
“The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.”
“As I write, invariably I encounter more questions and answer those as I go.”

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“For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.”

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