"When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant."

-- Ambrose Bierce

#Firsts Quotes #Instinct Quotes

“Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
“I think everybody's talking about like facts and truth and you know like that 'We're here to fact check' and all of that, that's the base material of journalism. You cannot have journalism without facts and truth. But if facts and truth were what actually you know sort of moved people's lives and moved their decision-making like the election would have had a different outcome.”
“The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.”

Source : Jacob Morton Braude (1966). “Speaker's desk book of quips, quotes, & anecdotes”
“Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.”

Source : Song: You're The Man, 2006
“The best practitioners give to their patients the least medicine.”
“Apple and Google will compete like crazy for our data because once they have it we'll be their customers forever.”
“Don't be a victim. Be busy with your horse so you stay out of trouble - otherwise, trouble will come and find youâ€, Brannaman would say. â€œBe assertive but don't be aggressive, if you are aggressive you'll make the horse flighty. The horse needs perimeters like anyone else. Give them guidance, support, rules. The same rules. Don't change the game. Don't let them have excuses just cause of their past. And love them.”
“I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.”

Source : "Elizabeth Strout on 'The Burgess Boys'". Interview with Dylan Foley, www.chicagotribune.com. March 23, 2013.

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