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My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#completely #discovery #experience #finds #interesting

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#am #best #convinced #general #his

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer. ↗

— Rick Pitino

#excellence #improve #offer #quality #unlimited

I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that way. It was just a whole new culture I didn't understand. I snuck into it. It was an R-rated film. So it holds a special place. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#culture #fever #film #holds #i

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever. ↗

— Stan Brakhage

#forever #novelists #poets #side

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress. ↗

— Frank Pittman

#distrust #make #ourselves #parents #seem

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#i #me #more #ought #ponder

I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#bitter end #days #end #feet #get

There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that. ↗

— Stewart Brand

#everyone #going #humanity #more #soon

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#create #god #king #like #slave