"If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war."

-- Joseph Joffre

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“The mightiest works have been accomplished by men who have somehow kept their ability to dream great dreams.”

Source : Walter Russell Bowie (1931). “On Being Alive”
“The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences in altered states of consciousness. The previous fear of death is typically quelled. If the individual generally remains thereafter in the existential state of awareness, the deep internal feeling of eternity is quite profound and unshakable.”
“An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.”
“When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!”
“I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn't know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to watch movies, how to enjoy them, how to hate them, how not to like them.”
“Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.”
“Doctor Killebrew was also in the script at one point, and for creative reasons we ended up cutting him.”
“You can write a 1st paragraph that continues the same thought you expressed in your headline. If you stop a reader with a headline about house paint, you can be sure of at least one thing about that reader: He wants more info about house paint. You will not lose him as long as you continue to give him what he wants.”

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