"On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do not try to block the enemy's way. On the ground of intersecting highways, join hands with your allies. On serious ground, gather in plunder. In difficult ground, keep steadily on the march. On hemmed-in ground, resort to stratagem. On desperate ground, fight."

-- Sun Tzu

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“For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.”
“We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy.”
“It is the great inspector, with a myriad eyes, who never sleeps, and whose daily reports are submitted, not to a functionary or department, but to the whole people.”
“Last week we went to the museum. A whole whale is hanging from the ceiling. Bigger than big! OK, have you seen a Volkswagon car that's like a bug? Um huh, you know what I'm talking about. That's how big the heart of a blue whale is. I know it's not possible, but if that heart was in me, could I love more?...I would like to.”

Source : Sapphire (1996). “Push: A Novel”, Vintage
“Walking on the moon is now something that people used to do, in the distant past, like macramÃ©, decoupage and the Hustle.... There will just be the pictures, then, as we saw them in the summer of '69, ghostly and blurry, colorless and incomprehensible, an infant's glimpse of a new world.”
“Excuses are a list of self imposed obstacles that prevent you from having a better life.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tony Horton from Jul 20, 2010
“No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.”
“I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak to me. I've seen the music break the language barrier.”

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