"Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow."

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Source : 1759 To his troops,12 Sep, after reciting Thomas Gray's 'Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard' the evening before storming the ramparts of Quebec and dying a hero's death on the Plains of Abraham the following day. Quoted in Francis Parkman Montcalm and Wolfe (1884).

James Wolfe

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“I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.”
“Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.”

Source : Leonard Bernstein (1976). “The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard”, p.140, Harvard University Press
“A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period.”

Source : "Ashley's Secret Life". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. July 9, 2006.
“For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us.”

Source : "I Dream of Common Wealth" by Charlie Pierce, www.esquire.com. March 29, 2012.
“There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.”
“Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.”
“The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.”

Source : Rudolf Arnheim (1957). “Film as Art”, p.195, Univ of California Press
“Moving forward is not based upon your past; your future is exclusively determined by the decisions you make now, in this moment.”

Source : Mike Michalowicz (2008). “The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The Tell-it-like-it-is Guide to Cleaning Up in Business, Even If You are at the End of Your Roll”, p.126, Toilet Paper Entrepreneur

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