“Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.”
Art“The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.”
Power“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”
Life“Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.”
Life“I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.”
History“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”
Work“The world is full of willing people some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”
Work“Freedom lies in being bold.”
Freedom“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”
Age“The best way out is always through.”
Best“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
Poetry“There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.”
Teacher“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.”
Men“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.”
Work“I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.”
Alone“If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.”
Freedom“Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.”
Life“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.”
Life“You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.”
Freedom“The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.”
Life“The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.”
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