"Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses."

-- Winston Churchill

#Horse Quotes #Race Quotes #Navy Quotes

“Acting is a form of confession.”
“The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.”

Source : George W. S. Trow (1981). “Within the Context of No Context”, p.44, Atlantic Monthly Press
“As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.”
“A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power. I was not a murderer. I was not like Victor Sells. I was Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. I was a wizard. Wizards control their power. They don't let it control them. And wizards don't use magic to kill people. They use it to discover, to protect, to mend, to help. Not to destroy.”
“All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300 cities with populations over 100,000. When the environment is forced to file Chapter 11, the ecology collapses. Nations recover from war but not from a failed eco-system. The status of our environment is more threatening than all wars. It is forever.”
“Since today's companies are totally dependent on a continuing human membership that produces a superior intellectual output in comparison to the competition, then there is inevitably a fight over the right to the bottom line.”

Source : "Arie de Geus: The Thought Leader Interview". Interview with S+B, www.strategy-business.com. April 1, 2001.
“Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.”
“What I wanted to do was build an automobile.”

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