"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own."

-- Michael Korda

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“Michael Schumacher is leading Michael Schumacher.”
“Some people are desperate because they don't know how to ask for His grace.”

Source : Bree Despain (2011). “The Dark Divine”, p.30, Egmont UK
“Any damn fool can put on a deal, but it takes genius, faith and perseverance to create a brand.”

Source : David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.87, Profile Books
“I've always had dreams. When I was little, I'd go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.”
“This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor is there in my judgment any excuse for a conflict between science and religion, for their fields are entirely different. Men who know very little of science and men who know very little of religion do indeed get to quarreling, and the onlookers imagine that there is a conflict between science and religion, whereas the conflict is only between two different species of ignorance.”
“The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the worldâ€™s smallest violin starts to play. The truth is, we all have problems; we all go through hardships and pain, and my pain is paradise compared to a lot of peopleâ€™s and I really have no right to whine at all.”

Source : J. A. Redmerski, J. Lynn, Jay Crownover (2013). “The Edge of Never, Wait For You, Rule: Scorching Summer Reads 3 Books in 1”, p.19, HarperCollins UK
“If you please man and never please God, you have nothing; if you please God and man forsakes you, you have everything.”
“For my part, I believe that the vain, glorious and the violent will not inherit the earth. . . . In pursuance of that faith my friends and I take the hands of the dying in our hands. And some of us travel to the Pentagon, and others live in the Bowery and serve there, and others speak unpopularly and plainly of the fate of the unborn and of convicted criminals. It is all one.”

Source : Daniel Berrigan (1980). “We Die Before We Live: Talking with the Very Ill”, Harper San Francisco

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