"It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity."

-- Walter Wriston

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“The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.”

Source : Gregory Maguire (2009). “Mirror Mirror: A Novel”, p.2, Harper Collins
“Try to be the king, but the ace is back.”

Source : Song: Still D.R.E.-Feat. Snoop Dogg, Album: Dr. Dre 2001
“Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.”
“All too many men still seem to believe, in a rather naÃ¯ve and egocentric way, that what feels good to them is automatically what feels good to women.”

Source : Shere Hite (2011). “The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality”, p.273, Seven Stories Press
“Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song â€“ if you please! But it seems, before they can launch a song, poets must tramp for days with callused feet, and the sluggish fish of the imagination flounders softly in the slush of the heart. And while, with twittering rhymes, they boil a broth of loves and nightingales, the tongueless street merely writhes for lack of something to shout or say”

Source : Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, “A Cloud In Trousers - Part II”
“I love to read aloud.”
“For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.”
“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”

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