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At a time when there's younger writers starting up and it's inevitable that you're becoming less fashionable, at a time when the industrial pressures apply more and more to books, how do you keep a book you wrote 28 years ago selling well year on year? Because it really is getting harder. ”
On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses. ”
Eternity is in love with the productions of time. ”
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. ”
It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time. ”
There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past. ”
Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn. ”
It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies. ”
Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more inclined to listen to ballads. ”
Every Medal of Valor recipient has confronted life-threatening danger. Each had their fight-or-flight moment. But each one stood their ground for our safety. We hold them up as examples to other first responders - and to all Americans. ”