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How much of human life is lost in waiting.
How much of human life is lost in waiting.
Alec Issigonis (we refuse to use the plutocratic terms 'sir' or 'doctor') said a camel is a horse designed by read more
Alec Issigonis (we refuse to use the plutocratic terms 'sir' or 'doctor') said a camel is a horse designed by committee. If it was God's committee
for an animal adapted to communities without water..
it was a divine consensus.
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, read more
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.
People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.