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“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough”
William Saroyan
“Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you.”
Miyamoto Musashi
“Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.”
Claude McKay
“They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.”
Winston Churchill
“There is no such thing necessarily in a dictatorial regime of iron-clad absolutely solid evidence. The evidence I had was the best possible evidence that he had a weapon.”
George W. Bush
“Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.”
Tycho Brahe
“It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.”
Erica Jong
“What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Although we are satisfied with our performance in personal systems, imaging and printing, software, and services, these solid results were overshadowed by unacceptable execution in enterprise servers and storage. We therefore are making immediate management changes. We are also accelerating our margin improvement plans in this business.”
Carly Fiorina
“We were solid in every regard. We ran the ball very well. That's a big part of our attack, but we also have an outstanding passing attack and showed that tonight.”
Chuck Wagner
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