I’m really very sorry for you all, but it’s an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
Quotes
1851 – end of British window tax
Great Fire of Chicago
Chicago’s first insurance agent, Gurdon Hubbard, felt honor bound to sell his own property to pay the claims of people he had personally underwritten,
Anthony Trollope on Chicago
Modern Chicago was born in 1848. The first telegraph line reached the city, the Illinois and Michigan Canal reached the city, the first oceangoing
Sir Jushua Reynolds, president of Royal Academy
Syracuse Coach Jim Boeheim
“I was impressed with how he did as a first semester freshman” On basketball star Carmelo Anthony’s grades, which were 4Cs and 1 D.
Anthony Bourdain on businss partners
This might be good and profitable today or tomorrow, but will this thing be good for me in a year or in two years
Anthony Bourdain on showing up
Give the people you work with or deal with or have relationships with the respect to show up at the time you said you
Sami Inkinen, co founder of Trulia, and his wife rowed from Monterey CA to Honolulu in 45 days, setting a new record. each rowing