"Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more we take pride in our accomplishment, and we find ourselves back at square one."

-- Mike Aquilina

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“China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.”
“Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful objects. They are called Primitive for want of a better name...What could never have been written is there, all the dreams and anguishes of man. The hunger for food and sex and security, the terrors of night and death, the thirst for life and the hope for survival.”
“... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction betweenour present period and the centuries before. And this loss is definite. For no matter how religious our world may turn again, or how much authentic faith still exists in it, or how deeply our moral values may be rooted in our religious systems, the fear of hell is no longer among the motives which would prevent or stimulate the actions of a majority.”
“I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.”
“The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.”
“I don't worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it.”
“I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s.”
“If we could combine Starbucks' spirit with the spirit of the artisan, we knew we could achieve something special.”

Source : 'Inside world's coolest Starbucks - covered in cedar sticks and inspired by 1,000-year-old shrine" by Rachel Bishop, www.mirror.co.uk. March 9, 2016.

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