"If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure."

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Source : "Perspectives on Richard Ford". Book by Huey Guagliardo, p. 139, 2010.

Richard Ford

#Loneliness Quotes #Disease Quotes #Stories Quotes

“In business the 80/20 principle is behind any innovation, any extra value. It is an entrepreneurial principle, a formula for value creation utilized not only by entrepreneurs, but by most managers and organizations.”
“Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.”
“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”

Source : Statement to the Court, delivered 14 [or 18] September 1918, Federal Court of Cleveland, Ohio
“There ain't no justice, laws of nature rule this land. Better hide your horses, bury your whiskey.”
“Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now.”
“I wasnt particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.”
“We`re doing everything in our power to make sure all the names are spelled correctly. We have up to eight weeks before they deliver the monument from Vermont to make any corrections in the spellings.”
“Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.”

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