"One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard, of pavement, of auto horn-all of these are urban essences; all are negations of wilderness."

-- Benton MacKaye

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“What I do brings me a lot of money and it puts me on TV so people may look at me like a star but to me, if you're good (at what you do) and keep on improving, then that's what makes you a star in your own way.”
“Everybody's going through a lot of stress these days, no matter how well off you are and how many advantages you have, it's a stressful time in everybody's lives.”
“Rule #1: The customer is always right. Rule #2: If the customer is wrong, please refer to rule #1. -Duncan Howe”

Source : Harry Gordon Selfridge (2013). “Mr. Selfridge's Romance of Commerce: An Abridged Version of the Classic Text on Business and Life”, p.3, Adams Media
“I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.”
“Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.”

Source : John Lahr (2015). “Joy Ride: Lives of the Theatricals”, p.167, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.”
“But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.”

Source : "Flexibility, Inside and Out" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.
“When I see big movies that are only about good versus evil, and the good guy wins, I only can think we're in a far more complicated world than that. I frankly think that this binary philosophy is actually a dangerous way to look at the world.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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