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“Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.”
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“Don't be too quick to interpret the moment. Just keep quiet. My encouragement would always be: never think anything is against you, everything is blessing. Why should it be different? Just be quiet. Let it all work itself out.”
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“Instead of being a person to whom things happened, I became a person who made things happen.”
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“It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.”
Source : Truman Capote (2012). “A Christmas Memory”, p.23, Modern Library
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“Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around.”
Source : Robert Rankin (2011). “The Gollancz eBook Collection (eBook): Eight Fantastic Novels by Robert Rankin”, p.155, Hachette UK
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“I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.”
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“The more successful a political party, the more winning its ways, the less of its time is spent casting about for policy or determining it principles. But, political parties with principles or even without them, have a common need for money; someone has to pay for the television commercials.”
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“My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.”
