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I have always remembered his answer: “I cannot expect my railroad to make money until I first put money in the hands of farmers along my right of way. It occurred to me that, during our depression years, we could not correct our national
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Seeds of Hormel's stakeholder philosophy, quoting J. J. Hill
“Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.”
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“Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.”
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“I don't need time, I need a deadline.”
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“She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can't move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage.”
― Pattern Recognition
― Pattern Recognition
“There is a literature that does not reach the voracious mass. It is the work of creators, issued from a real necessity in the author, produced for himself. It expresses the knowledge of a supreme egoism, in which laws wither away. Every page must explode, either by profound heavy seriousness, the whirlwind, poetic frenzy, the new, the eternal, the crushing joke, enthusiasm for principles, or by the way in which it is printed. On the one hand a tottering world in flight, betrothed to the glockenspiel of hell, on the other hand: new men. Rough, bouncing, riding on hiccups. Behind them a crippled world and literary quacks with a mania for improvement.”
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