"You can be racist against people that eat little red apples."

-- Doug Ford, Jr.

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“Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.”
“As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.”
“I was a professional chess player in Romania, but only a small-time master. When I came to France, I continued playing chess for many years: I played tournaments in numerous countries with mixed results. I wrote and published a book - La DÃ©fense Alekhine and translated two others from Russian. I taught chess in schools; I earned more money through chess than through literature.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain in your own croquet set. As Lassiter crouched beside the Brotherâ€™s pretzel of a body, he was feeling a little nauseous himself, and he took a moment to cup what hung between his legsâ€”just to reassure the boys downstairs that however much of an iconoclast he was, some things were sacred.”
“There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn into illusions themselves and become part of the drama of religious culture. Although they can make us happy temporarily, they can't free us from suffering, so at some point, they become a source of disappointment and discouragement. Eventually, these forms may inspire nothing more than resistance to their authority.”
“Judgment is affirmation with the intention to thereby affirm competently enough, and indeed aptly. That distinguishes judgments from mere guesses.”
“A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.”
“Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment-undermining old means of control, opening up old closets of secrecy, reducing the relevance of ownership, early arrival, and location-should seem less a litany of problems than an agenda for action. Reaching for a way to describe the entrepreneurial energy of his fabled editor Harold Ross, James Thurber said" 'He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.' That's the appropriate posture for a knowledge executive.”

Source : Harlan Cleveland (1985). “The knowledge executive: leadership in an information society”, E P Dutton

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