“
To do our work, we all have to read a mass of papers. While energy has to be spent in looking for the essential points.
I ask my colleagues and their staffs to see to it that their reports are shorter.
”
― The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
― The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
“
I went to Harvard for examination with two men not as well prepared as I. Both passed easily, and I flunked, having sat through two or three examinations without being able to write a word." Burnham said.
Larson wrote, "The same happened at Yale, Both schools turned him down. He never forgot it.
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― The Devil in the White City
― The Devil in the White City
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