"Censorship is all around us, I don't think it's innate."

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Alice Mattison

#Thinking Quotes #Censorship Quotes #Innate Quotes

“Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics.”
“Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.”
“Be you own hero, be your own saviour, send all your suffering into the fire. Let no foot, mark your ground, let no hand, hold you down.”
“Two commanders on the same field are always one too many.”

Source : General Ulysses S. Grant (2013). “The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant [Illustrated – 2 volumes in one]”, p.239, Pickle Partners Publishing
“When I used to live in Asia, they used to say, "If you're going to sing karaoke, you want to go after the worst singer." And I'd be coming in Deutsche Telekom after the worst singer.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon of tennis early in life, mainly by blacks like my most powerful mentor, Dr. Robert Walter Johnson of Lynchburg, Virginia. They insisted that I be unfailingly polite on the court, unfalteringly calm and detached, so that whites could never accuse me of meanness. I learned well. I look at photographs of the skinny, frail, little black boy that I was in the early 1950s, and I see that I was my tennis racquet and my tennis racquet was me. It was my rod and my staff.”
“Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.”
“Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.”

Source : Laura Z. Hobson (2011). “Gentleman's Agreement”, p.310, Open Road Media

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