"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."

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Horace Walpole

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“Dad took moving pictures of us children washing dishes, so that he could figure out how we could reduce our motions and thus hurry through the task. Irregular jobs, such as painting the back porch or removing a stump from the front lawn, were awarded on a low-bid basis. Each child who wanted extra pocket money submitted a sealed bid saying what he would do the job for. The lowest bidder got the contract.”

Source : FRANK B. GILBRETH JR. (1948). “CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN”
“When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort.”
“When the wine is ready, that's when we'll drink.”
“No man is free who cannot control himself.”
“I'm a big fan of spinning and yoga. To strengthen my core, kick-boxing is really effective. The resistance tones everything, and it's a great stress reliever.”

Source : "Face Time | Katrina Bowden". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. August 9, 2011.
“As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abbys of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. Though she tried to forget it, the nothingness would visit her periodically - on a lonely rainy afternoon, or at dawn when she woke up from a nightmare. What she needed at such times was to be held by someone, anyone.”
“When everyone gets something for nothing, soon no one will have anything, because no one will be producing anything.”

Source : "Charles Koch: Why We Fight for Economic Freedom". www.newsmax.com. August 15, 2012.
“If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.”

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