"Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done."

-- C. Northcote Parkinson

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“Lots of people with little kids or babies with Down syndrome tell me they aren't afraid of the future for their child because of what I am doing to help people understand it better.”

Source : "Actors with Down syndrome in more films, TV; 'Glee' star Lauren Potter says 'we're just like anybody else'" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. November 20, 2012.
“Relaxation, acceptance, and keeping open mind are key. First of all, peak performance isn't possible if one is not relaxed, and if one is going to stay relaxed they must simply accept problems when they arise and decide to solve them. If I can't do a move I merely accept that I haven't discovered the right sequence, instead of trying the same sequence over and over or just quitting. I will try to do it 20 or 30 different ways, making subtle changes in body position and fot placement, until I find something that does work. That's what I mean by keeping an open mind.”
“Transcendence and dissolution, always the same thing.”
“It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.”

Source : "Are women human?" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2006.
“I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives.”
“Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.”
“Give me, instead of beauty's bust, A tender heart, a loyal mind, Which with temptation I could trust, Yet never linked with error find.”

Source : George Darley (1908). “The complete poetical works of George Darley now first collected, reprinted from the rare original editions in the possession of the Darley family”
“Istanbul ... the constant beating of the wave of the East against the rock of the West ...”

Source : Susan Moody (1992). “Mosaic”, Dell Publishing Company

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