"In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that."

-- Aleksandar Hemon

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“Our young men in Vietnam have not only acquitted themselves in an outstanding manner during combat operations, but they also have been outstanding ambassadors of goodwill in the vital civic action and pacification work among the tortured populace of South Vietnam.”
“People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.”
“There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions.”

Source : "Motion Study as an Increase of National Wealth". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 59, (p. 96), www.jstor.org. May, 1915.
“I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit it on a little chair and say, "You'll have three score years and ten," and take a photograph every minute. "And we'll watch you and photograph you for ten years after you die, then we'll run the film." Wouldn't that be extraordinary? We'd watch this thing get bigger and bigger, and flower to become extraordinary and beautiful, then watch it crumble, decay, and rot.”
“What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.”
“Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.”
“You do everything you weren't allowed to do in school. Jumping up and down, screaming, annoying people, and people love you for it.”
“Don't ever have a rule that you won't enforce with your best player.”

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