"Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it."

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Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.74, Granta Books

Patrick deWitt

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“It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.”
“All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the image, and the officer viewing the image never interacts with the passenger. The imaging technology that we use cannot store, export, print or transmit images.”
“Knowledge management will never work until corporations realize it's not about how you capture knowledge but how you create and leverage it.”
“Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.”
“Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.”

Source : "Interview Issue: Dan Savage, Jane Lynch on 'It Gets Better,' Gay Bullying, 'Glee'". Interview with Jessica Bennett, www.newsweek.com. December 20, 2010.
“In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems.”

Source : Zubin Mehta, Renate v Matuschka (2009). “Zubin Mehta: The Score of My Life”, Hal Leonard Corporation
“it will be miraculous, very miraculous.”

Source : Malika Oufkir, Michele Fitoussi (2001). “Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail”, Miramax Books
“The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.”

Source : Meriwether Lewis (2012). “History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.”, p.249, tredition

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