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My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more. ↗


— Michael Gerber


#business #exceptionally #experience #good #insatiable

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? ↗


— William Shakespeare


#could #had #heart #known #love

Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche. ↗


— Joshua Leonard


#being #camera #front #little #my own

By Jove, it's great! Walk along the streets on some spring morning. The little women, daintily tripping along, seem to blossom out like flowers. What a delightful, charming sight! The dainty perfume of violet is everywhere. The city is gay, and everybody notices the women. By Jove, how tempting they are in their light, thin dresses, which occasionally give one a glimpse of the delicate pink flesh beneath! "One saunters along, head up, mind alert, and eyes open. I tell you it's great! You see her in the distance, while still a block away; you already know that she is going to please you at closer quarters. You can recognize her by the flower on her hat, the toss of her head, or her gait. She approaches, and you say to yourself: 'Look out, here she is!' You come closer to her and you devour her with your eyes. "Is it a young girl running errands for some store, a young woman returning from church, or hastening to see her lover? What do you care? Her well-rounded bosom shows through the thin waist. Oh, if you could only take her in your arms and fondle and kiss her! Her glance may be timid or bold, her hair light or dark. What difference does it make? She brushes against you, and a cold shiver runs down your spine. Ah, how you wish for her all day! How many of these dear creatures have I met this way, and how wildly in love I would have been had I known them more intimately. "Have you ever noticed that the ones we would love the most distractedly are those whom we never meet to know? Curious, isn't it? From time to time we barely catch a glimpse of some woman, the mere sight of whom thrills our senses. But it goes no further. When I think of all the adorable creatures that I have elbowed in the streets of Paris, I fairly rave. Who are they! Where are they? Where can I find them again? There is a proverb which says that happiness often passes our way; I am sure that I have often passed alongside the one who could have caught me like a linnet in the snare of her fresh beauty. ↗


— Guy de Maupassant


#maupassant #nouvelles #short-story #unknown #beauty

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary. ↗


— Gabriel Garcia Marquez


#free #interpretation #less #make #more

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody. ↗


— Bjork


#any #bore #death #feminists #follow

I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money. ↗


— Bjork


#designers #else #i #i do #make

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down. ↗


— Charles Adams


#bring #catastrophe #create #down #expediency

We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism. ↗


— John Blair


#bolshevism #dead #dead end #down #end

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! ↗


— Honore de Balzac


#brothers #kin #kings #most #mother






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