Robert Crawford quotes
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“A soup so thick you could shake its hand and stroll with it before dinner.”
-- Robert CrawfordSource : John Burnside, Robert Crawford, Kathleen Jamie (1996). “John Burnside, Robert Crawford, Kathleen Jamie”
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“Each new development starts from something else. It does not come out of a blue sky. You make use of that which has already entered the mind.... That is the real reason for accumulating knowledge.”
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“What gets measured, gets done. And what gets recognized gets done again, and even better.”
-- Robert Crawford
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Source : An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 2 (1776)
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“Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.”
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“Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic.”
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