"Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera--or war or fiction."

-- Sinclair Lewis

#War Quotes #Shoes Quotes #Ems Quotes

“Listening is a prerequisite for action. Listening is a principle for living Jewishly in a globalised world”
“It's easy to get lost in endless speculation. So today, release the need to know why things happen as they do. Instead, ask for the insight to recognize what you're meant to learn.”
“In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education”
“Where but in the very ***** of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through”
“They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.”
“Nature lies, disheveled, pale, With her feverish lips apart,- Day by day the pulses fail, Nearer to her bounding heart.”

Source : Elaine Goodale Eastman, “Goldenrod”
“Ever since I left Greece more than two decades ago, it has been my dream to return and perform at the Acropolis. This project took more than a year and a half to plan and accomplish, and I would like to thank my band and crew and the scores of people involved in helping my dream become a reality.”
“On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are the ones that force us to come to our own conclusions and to explain why we believe in our conclusions.”

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