"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized."

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Source : "Merrill’s Marauders" by Charlton Ogburn, harpers.org. January 1957.

Petronius

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“These are the rules of big business. They have superseded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim: Get a monopoly; let Society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics, for a legislative grant, franchise, subsidy or tax exemption is worth more than a Kim-berly or Comstock lode, since it does not require any labor, either mental or physical, for its exploitation.”
“But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.”

Source : Dave Eggers (2007). “What Is the What”, p.10, Vintage
“You know, the mountains are full of dangers, and they swallow you up. But mostly, they give.”
“Women are skinny for other women. Men want something they can actually hold on to.”
“So much of my work is defined by the difference between the figure in the foreground and the background. Very early in my career, I asked myself, "What is that difference?" I started looking at the way that a figure in the foreground works in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European paintings and saw how much has to do with what the figure owns or possesses. I wanted to break away from that sense in which there's the house, the wife, and the cattle, all depicted in equal measure behind the sitter.”

Source : Source: www.artpractical.com
“The end of the rope stops in the palm of God.”
“Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most obscure book in the world. He must be a great fool who thinks he understands the plainest chapter of it.”

Source : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.23, Lulu Press, Inc
“I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.”

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