"Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends."

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Lois Wyse

#Weekend Quotes #Power Quotes #Two Quotes

“And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.”

Source : "Taylor Made for Texas". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. March 7, 2012.
“The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.”
“Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.”
“Morality is truth in full bloom.”
“Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one loses one's way in a forest, requires some schooling. Street names must speak to the urban wanderer like the snapping of dry twigs, and little streets in the heart of the city must reflect the times of day, for him, as clearly as a mountain valley. This art I acquired rather late in life; it fulfilled a dream, of which the first traces were labyrinths on the blotting papers in my school notebooks.”
“If I had to choose a song to listen to before I died, it would be Simone singing ComeÃ§ar de novo.”
“Most of the books that I've written have been focused on, sort of, the individual, and sort of, either a voice, a personal voice, or a kind of transforming event where they step forward to fight for something they value.”
“Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.”

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