"We till shadowed days are done, We must weep and sing Duty's conscious wrong, The Devil in the clock"

“There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.”

“Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance.”

“I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.”

Source : "Oksana Baiul: Online Interview". Golden Skate Interview, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

“Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.”

“To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.”

“If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.”

Source : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.717, Ravenio Books

“Companies have to nurture [creativity and motivation]-and have to do it by building a compassionate yet performance-driven corporate culture. In the knowledge economy the traditional soft people side of our business has become the new hard side.”

“And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, "What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink." Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'”