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Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.
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There is one story and one story only.
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Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't…
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The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end,…
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We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English…
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The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties…
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No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation…
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should…
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Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or…
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A thing well done is worth doing.
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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
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A thing well said will be wit in all languages.
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Say a thing well and it will be remembered-and so too will you.
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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
— Plato
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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
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In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they…
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Doing the right thing is important, which is where strategy comes in. But doing that thing well—execution—is what sets companies apart. After…
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