"History depends on who is telling the story."

-- James O'Shaughnessy

#Stories Quotes #Depends Quotes

“I had a lot of fun with those guys from the Wall Street. The laughter is unlike most settings you'll find. The level of intensity, the adrenaline, the stakes are incredible. I mean it is addictive. I can understand why people end up spending 23 or 24 hours a day hitting it.”
“We have this unfortunate habit in the United States of dividing terrorism into different categories. External, foreign terrorism, which manifests itself overseas or in the United States, or domestic terrorism.”
“I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.”
“The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.”
“I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.”
“The right man can make a good job out of any job.”
“I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were never open. Her heart never leapt out to flop helplessly on the lawn. She never melted into puddles. She was normal. Always. At any cost.”

Source : E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.195, Delacorte Press
“We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material.”

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