"If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing."

-- Shelby Foote

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“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
“The fight against evil is long and difficult. It is essential to pray constantly and to be patient.”
“I think in music there is just something inherently spiritual in singing together and harmonizing, and gospel is the truest form of that.”
“One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.”

Source : Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.31, Shambhala Publications
“I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.”
“No, ghosts are real. You can see them, touch them, and hear them. But they do not exist. Which is why science ignores them. But to claim they are a fabrication and do not exist because science ignores them is a mistake. Because ghosts are real.”
“This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.”
“If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamicsthat present an important challenge to imperative control and the industrial division of labor. The more blurred the distinction between what workers know and what managers know, the more fragile and pointless any traditional relationships of domination and subordination between them will become.”

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