"Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead."

Source : Tom Stoppard (1999). “Arcadia”

Tom Stoppard

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“Regardless of how you interpret the facts, you have to come to the conclusion that inequality is widening in the US and in almost every other country.”
“I don't really like jokes in a way. I mean gags are fine but I like weird moments where what you have isn't really a joke, just tiny moments.”
“detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.”
“Mamoru, please say it once more. -Usagi Again? But I've said it 50 times! -Mamoru Please? One more time? -Usagi Okay, for the last time. Marry me, Usagi. -Mamoru”
“I just love working. I really enjoy the work, whatever it is.”

Source : "James D'Arcy Talks THOSE WHO KILL, Working with Chloë Sevigny, Having More Time to Explore a Character, JUPITER ASCENDING, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 10, 2014.
“We need from every man who aspires to leadership-for himself and his company-a determination to undertake a personal program of self-development. Nobody is going to order a man to develop .... Whether a man lags behind or moves ahead in his specialty is a matter of his own personal application. This is something which takes time, work, and sacrifice. Nobody can do it for you.”
“London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its sprawling confusion.”

Source : Joseph Fort Newton (1922). “Preaching in London: A Diary of Anglo-American Friendship”
“When a beginner wins he feels brilliant and invincible Then he takes wild risk and loses everything.”

Source : Alexander Elder (1993). “Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons

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