"One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff."

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Source : William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

William McFee

#Obscurity Quotes #Reputation Quotes #Fame Quotes

“Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.”
“We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.”
“We have no plans to increase tax at all.”
“We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.”
“For instance, members of the elite will never allow their children to become musicians normally, because it's - not embarrassing - but it's not done. There's a very famous composer from the '70s from a well-known family that disowned him, and he's a man, so there's this historical precedence with their relationships with musicians - not so much music as it's this abstract thing - but externally with artists.”

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“Physical training is mental warfare!”
“There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.”

Source : David Guterson (2009). “Snow Falling on Cedars”, p.212, A&C Black
“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.”

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