"I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed."

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Source : Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.91, Golgotha Press

Nellie Bly

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“I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.”
“All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call "aware"--an almost untranslatable word meaning something like "beauty tinged with sadness.”

Source : Gretel Ehrlich (1985). “The solace of open spaces”, Viking Pr
“Realistically there is no limit to the possibilities. How does an artist make decisions?”
“The mainline media attacks all conservatives, especially Christians, and distorts their policies and beliefs so that the local population is afraid to vote for them.”
“We've got a portfolio of companies that range all the way from hotels to television stations and cable TV companies, oil and gas, consumer products, and industrial products. If there's anything that I want to know more about, I have the opportunity. It's right in our portfolio. I can spend time at the factory or with the manangement and learn as much as I want. You can't get bored doing that.”

Source : "Avatar of American Finance". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 12, 1991.
“This is not a problem. Iâ€™m making everybody very calm, distracted by my bad results and then Iâ€™m going to shoot. One good result and Iâ€™m coming back. This is a distraction, itâ€™s the calm before the storm,”
“Barry recounts all this in prose of often startling beauty. Just as he describes people stopping in the street to look at Roseanne, so I often found myself stopping to look at the sentences he gave her, wanting to pause and copy them down.”
“There's so much more to a book than just the reading.”

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