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I suppose, as a politician, I should be content, for the Canada Pension Plan certainly put my name in Canada's history books, and in italics.
Swing and a fly ball to right, Green under it.....in foul ground..makes the catch!...Put it in the books!..The Mets are gonna play for the pennant!
At a very early stage in history we are encountering "survivorship bias" - the fact that only the best results tend to show up in the history books.
The act of writing the book was painful at times, but it was easier than talking to someone.
Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author.
Any journalist worth his salt, should have to study literature to some extent.
THIS BOOK is not about reengineering; it is about reengineering’s consequences, about its aftermath and its abiding legacy.
Mutsuhiro attended Tokyo's prestigious Waseda University, where he studied French literature and cultivated an infatuation with nihilism.
Laura Hillenbrand Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (2010)
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