"The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight."

-- Clive James

#Hindsight Quotes #Inevitable Quotes #Belittle Quotes

“Rule #1: The customer is always right. Rule #2: If the customer is wrong, please refer to rule #1. -Duncan Howe”

Source : Harry Gordon Selfridge (2013). “Mr. Selfridge's Romance of Commerce: An Abridged Version of the Classic Text on Business and Life”, p.3, Adams Media
“You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 11, 2014
“I think people can believe in anything.”

Source : "Q&A with all the living Doctors from Classic Doctor Who". Collectormania convention, ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com. June 7, 2012.
“A lot of people think that if they learn to read music they are gonna lose their feel or their groove or something. It's the stupidest thing I have ever heard.”
“Even when the Phantom's leased, them hoes wanna get in.”
“Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.”
“It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.”

Source : Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The slave trade, domestic and foreign: why it exists, and how it may be extinguished”, p.364
“Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism means peace and tranquility to all.”

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