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Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect Norman Maclean
Fernando Pessoa quote: "back home.. the tablecloth of civilization makes us forget the..."
back home.. the tablecloth of civilization makes us forget the already painted pine it covers! ([50], Zenith trans.) Fernando Pessoa
As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me. If an individual is productive responsible, and energetic, why should her choice in a partner make such a fuss? The government is only too happy to take my tax money and yet they uphold legislation that keeps me a second class citizen. Surely, there should be a tax break for those of us who are robbed of full and equal participation and protection in the life of our nation. Rita Mae Brown
Jeff Bezos quote: "If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay..."
If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right. Jeff Bezos
Because, sir, the way I look at it is that we are all drawing on to the bottom of the hill, whatever age we are, on account of time never standing still for a single moment. So let us always do a kindness, and be over-rejoiced. To be sure! Charles Dickens
Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierceas the day we ripped Troy's glittering crown of towers down. Stand by me - furious now as then, my bright-eyed one -and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess, with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle! Homer
Edwidge Danticat quote: "The soldiers can come and do with us what they want. That..."
The soldiers can come and do with us what they want. That makes papa feel weak, she says. He gets angry when he feels weak. Edwidge Danticat
our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency. Malcolm Gladwell
He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself. Marguerite Yourcenar
There is nothing, nothing certain but the nothingness of all that is comprehensible to us, and the grandeur of something incomprehensible, but more important! Leo Tolstoy
My new favorite word is 'awkward.'...The reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort. Seth Godin
It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning. Chinua Achebe
What do you do when you're wound up?' she asked. 'Do you play that drum?'. 'No,' said the child. 'We used to dance.' 'But now we walk,' said the father. 'And behind us an enemy walks faster.' 'That's life,' said Euterpe. Russell Hoban
There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples they nevertheless help the visitor understand how hard it must have been for the condemned to say the line about forgiving those who trespass against us. Sarah Vowell
Stephen Covey quote: "Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from..."
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. Stephen Covey

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