"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed."

-- J. Paul Getty

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“While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with.”

Source : "Q&A: Odom on an Iraq Exit Strategy". Interview with Bernard Gwertzman, www.nytimes.com. May 7, 2004.
“People have to make their own decisions about their lives.”
“Lighting a fire UNDER someone will never be as effective as Lighting a fire WITHIN someone.”
“I think it takes a larger nature to receive nobly than to give nobly.”
“That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.”
“Time is the best kept secret of the rich.”
“Never mind, never mind, let's get to the part where we smite the unrighteous. I've brought my most alarming teeth!”
“This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice--blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then made to dance across the page.”

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