"False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis."

-- William Rounseville Alger

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“It is a myth that alcoholics have some spontaneous insight and then seek treatment. Victims of this disease do not submit to treatment out of spontaneous insight - typically, in our experience they come to their recognition scenes through a buildup of crises that crash through their almost impenetrable defense systems. They are forced to seek help; and when they don't, they perish miserably.”
“Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.”
“To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max. Blurbs are meaningless, and actual people who are buying the books don't care about them at all.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.”
“The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.”
“The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.”

Source : Thomas Bulfinch (2015). “Bulfinch's Mythology”, p.384, Booklassic
“We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare.”
“More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build a lot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities.”

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