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Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#details #exactly #fast #get #goes

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#copy #doing #else #fails #life

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#crimes #given #jails #longer #more

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#anyone #asset #decision #difficulties #else

Truth is powerful and it prevails. ↗

— Sojourner Truth

#powerful #prevails #truth #truth is

In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#favor #institute #keep #maintenance #matter

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#constantly #details #find #food #found

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#care #details #dying #embarrassing #ever

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support. ↗

— George Washington

#always #among #christians #citizens #good

Details create the big picture. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#big picture #create #details #picture