"I just can't imagine my life without Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov. I can spin off of that and talk about Crime and Punishment and Tolstoy. I could talk about other novels, but for me it's Dostoevsky. His sheer size and grandeur, his sacramentality, his ecclesiology, and his sense of the human predicament are as powerful as it gets. Can't imagine not reading the Russians."

-- Gordon T. Smith

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“...how engaged are your employees right now? You may consider such a question impossible to answer, but the truth is, you need to know this if you want a more profitable, ethical organization, as everyone must share the same values to make the changes genuine”
“If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.”

Source : "The hours" by Daniel Zalewski, www.newyorker.com. March 12, 2012.
“I perceived that the 'thing' and the 'idea' were taken to be equivalents of feeling, and understood the lie of the world of will and idea. Is the milk bottle the symbol of milk?”

Source : "Artists on Art: From the 14th to the 20th Centuries". Book by Robert Goldwater, p. 453, 1972.
“Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.”
“Anything you can do I can do better, I can do anything better than you.”
“The longest tyranny that ever sway'd Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle], And made his torch their universal light. So truth, while only one suppli'd the state, Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate.”
“Success is ultimately realized by people who make more good choices and recover quickly from their bad choices. Our personal and professional success depends on repeating good choices, day in and day out, and avoiding repetition of bad choices.”
“Who cares how we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons if we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons.”

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