"But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. ("The North")"

-- Yevgeny Zamyatin

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“There are a hundred or perhaps a thousand other emotions, or gradations, created by the mixing, blending, and overlapping of the basic ones.”
“Some people try deliberately to exploit the colonial hangover for their own purpose, to serve an external force. To us, Communism is as bad as imperialism.”

Source : "The Fate of Africa" by Martin Meredith, (p. 266), 1964.
“I have been called 'Bongshell' the day I stepped into showbiz. So, any adjective coming my way, I take it positively. Sometimes it's also entertaining, but I don't feel bad about it. I'm a proud woman.”
“Language is power, in ways more literal than most people think. When we speak, we exercise the power of language to transform reality. Why don't more of us realize the connection between language and power?”
“I believe everything happens under God's plan anyway.”
“Itâ€™s up to the captain. I certainly feel my golf is worthy of playing in the Ryder Cup. But Iâ€™m not sure Iâ€™m on the radar screen of Paul McGinley.”
“I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.”

Source : "Winning with People: Discover the People Principles that Work for You Every Time". Book by John C. Maxwell, 2005.
“Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's work”

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