"Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback."

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Source : David Baldacci (2009). “The Simple Truth”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

David Baldacci

#Mistake Quotes #Gone Quotes #Reputation Quotes

“there's no doctor like meat and drink ...”
“I'd say if you can, seize the opportunity, to go to a college or university and strengthen what it is that you have.”

Source : "MC Lyte’s Current Mission Is To Educate The Next Generation Of Hip-Hop Leaders". Blograma.com Interview, www.blogarama.com. August 23, 2016.
“It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.”
“Remember the box fight: You start as a southpaw, you go back to fighting as a right-handed fighter.”
“Al walks in, and I don't even have to ask him to help me, he just walks over and strips bedding with me. i will have to scrub the frame later. Al carries the stack of sheets to the trash and together we walk toward the training room. "Ignore him," Al says. "He's an idiot, and if you don't get angry, he'll stop eventually.”
“For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for. Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes. Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.”
“My view is different from this, only to the extent that if a decision is taken, by the parents and doctors, that it is better that a baby should die, I believe it should be possible to carry out that decision, not only by withholding or withdrawing life-support - which can lead to the baby dying slowly from dehydration or from an infection - but also by taking active steps to end the baby's life swiftly and humanely”
“[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.”

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