"The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down."

-- A. Whitney Brown

#Writing Quotes #Past Quotes #History Quotes

“When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition.”
“To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most direct, an upfront representation of the world it stood in for or stood up for or stood its ground against.”
“I hit a lot of bad shots, but you just need to laugh about them, be able to have a smile on your face, and just keep moving.”
“People I meet today, especially journalists who interview me, are astonished to hear that Lenin told me, in effect, that Communism was not working and that the Revolution needed American capital and technical aid.”

Source : Armand Hammer, Neil Lyndon (1988). “Hammer”, Perigee
“How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?”
“I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.”
“Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.”

Source : Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.12
“Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.”

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