"As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower."

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Source : 'Tall Nettles' (1917)

Edward Thomas

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“I suppose that if we in intelligence were one day given three wishes, they would be to know everything, to be believed when we spoke, and in such a way to exercise an influence to the good in the matter of policy.”

Source : Sherman Kent, Center for the Study of Intelligence (U.S.). History Staff (1994). “Sherman Kent and the Board of National Estimates: collected essays”
“People complain that chefs aren't at their restaurants anymore, but I don't think that's the case at all. You see them on TV and you assume they're not working but they are.”
“Our image has undergone change from David fighting Goliath to being Goliath.”

Source : Daily Telegraph, January 25, 1989.
“Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang?”

Source : Jose Clemente Orozco (1962). “José Clemente Orozco: An Autobiography”, p.21, University of Texas Press
“If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.”
“I was in the car driving back, after having done a scene where I kill somebody, and I just said to the driver, "I can't talk right now. I'm too emotional." The whole car ride back, I was just crying.”
“A successful politician must not only be able to read the mood of the public, he must have the skill to get the public on his side. The public is moved by mood more than logic, by instinct more than reason, and that is something that every politician must make use of or guard against”

Source : "Straight from the Heart". Book by Jean Chretien, 1985.
“Introverts keep their best stuff insideâ€”that is, until it is ready. And this drives extroverts crazy! The explanation for the introvertâ€™s behaviorâ€”and there must be an explanation for this behavior, say the extrovertsâ€”is that he or she is antisocial, out of touch, or simply a snob.”

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