Quotes
Authors
Washington Irving

"How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of life, as we look back upon them, have grown into the well-remembered background of the places where they fell upon us! Here is some sunny garden or summer lane, beautified and canonized forever, with the flood of a great joy; and here are dim and silent places,--rooms always shadowed and dark to us, whatever they may be to others,--where distress or death came once, and since then dwells forevermore."

-- Washington Irving

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“People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you have to do what's right for you.”
“If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humored these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.”
“In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece”
“Feminism's agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to "choose" between public justice and private happiness. It asks that women be free to define themselves-instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men.”
“In companies, there are three activities that should be labeled better. First there is the "CORE" which is the thing the company does that its customers pay it to do.”
“For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end... such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.”
“Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.”

Source : "Bad bosses: The Psycho-path to Success?" by Kevin Voigt, www.cnn.com. January 20, 2012.
“You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of fire.”

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