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“Love is Natures second sun.”
Source : George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.48
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“To the world you may be just one person but to one person you may be the world The road to finding 'the one' is paved with a bit of promiscuity.”
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“I put on the page a third look at what I've seen in life - the reinvented experience of a cross-eyed working-class lesbian, addicted to violence, language and hope, who has made the decision to live, is determined to live, on the page and on the street, for me and mine.”
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“It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.”
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“According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it was found that only 12 percent of those who use a gun to resist assault are injured, as are 17 percent of those who use a gun to resist robbery. These percentages are 27 and 25 percent, respectively, if they passively comply with the felon's demands. Three times as many were injured if they used other means of resistance.”
Source : "Policy Lessons From Recent Gun Control Research". Article by Gary Kleck, 1986.
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“the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.”
Source : Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press
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“Have you ever noticed how transparent people are when you really look at them?”
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“We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets, never to be reconciled, to our fellow-country men, to our neighbors, to our friends, to our family to our children. We have to go through not two slits at the same time but twenty-two. All we can do is to look afterwards, and see what happened.”
Source : "Copenhagen". Play by Michael Frayn, May 21, 1998.
