"The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished."

-- Arthur Conan Doyle

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“In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity â€” please observe, a plodding mediocrity â€” for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.”

Source : "Nine Old Men". Book by Drew Pearson and Robert Sharon Allen, 1936.
“Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.”
“Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.”
“I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.”
“I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.”
“When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.”
“No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity”
“You try to improvise in a compositional manner. You don't just do some stupid lick you've been practicing, scale form exercises or something.”

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