"Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice."

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Source : Sydney Thompson Dobell (1860). “Poems. Author's ed”, p.217

Sydney Thompson Dobell

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“To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.”

Source : Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press
“Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces exclusivity and transparency and openness to others becomes essential to the new way of conducting business, empathic sensibility has room to breathe and thrive. It is no longer so constrained by hierarchies, boundaries of exclusion, and a concept of human nature that places acquisitiveness, self-interest, and utility at the center of the human experience."”
“More and more countries of the world have decided that corporations do a better job of generating and deploying capital than do states.”
“He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.”
“I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.”
“Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found upon the ground, of no value themselves, but precious as showing that a mine is near.”
“But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not suppose that I intend any preposterous comparison, when I observe that Homer was farther removed in time from Troy than I am from the Napoleonic wars; yet he spoke to the Greeks for 2,000 years and more.”
“Rilke says: Verweilung, auch am Verstrautesten nicht, ist uns gegeben - We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.”

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