Philander Chase Johnson quotes
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“Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery.”
-- Philander Chase JohnsonSource : Everybody's Magazine, p. 36, May 1920.
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“The Seconds that tick as the clock moves along Are Privates who march with a spirit so strong. The Minutes are Captains. The Hours of the day Are Officers brave, who lead on to the fray. So, remember, when tempted to loiter and dream You've an army at hand; your command is supreme; And question yourself, as it goes on review-- Had it helped in the fight with the best it could do?”
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“The man who called it "near beer" was a bad judge of distance.”
-- Philander Chase Johnson
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“When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.”
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“Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like.”
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Source : Charles Stross (2006). “The Atrocity Archives”, p.38, Penguin
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“My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.”
Source : Dashiell Hammett (2010). “The Maltese Falcon”, p.95, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
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“Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.”
Source : Princeton University, James Mark Baldwin (1896). “Contributions to Psychology”
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“How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.”