"Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy."

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Calvin Trillin

#Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes #World Quotes

“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.”
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.”
“In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representatives who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions.”

Source : "The View From Chaos Manor". Jerry Pournelle's blog, www.jerrypournelle.com. April 3, 2006.
“It fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish, Truth is so: That, howsoe'er I stray and range, Whate'er I do, Thou dost not change. I steadier step when I recall That, if I slip Thou dost not fall.”

Source : Arthur Hugh Clough (1874). “Poems: With a Memoir”, p.53
“The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.”
“The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 03, 2012
“Life is a horse: either you ride it or it rides you.”
“For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what theyâ€™ll do in any scene you put them in.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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