"it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused."

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Patricia Wentworth

#Tactics Quotes #Favors Quotes

“In your cells right now, an enzyme is making a copy of your dna in less than two hours, right in the nucleus.”
“It doesn't matter if it's fair, that's just the reality of it.”
“The thing that makes 'Dirty Jobs' different is that it's one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn't highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.”
“The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.”

Source : Grace Abbott (1968). “The Child and the State: Legal status in the family. Apprenticeship and child labor”
“All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.”
“Macho does not prove mucho”
“The use of our possessions shows us up for what we actually are.”
“Healing does not take place in the fast lane.”

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