"Litigation only makes lawyers fat."

-- Wilbur Smith

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“All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and relinquishing hierarchical control to favor a results-oriented meritocracy.”

Source : "Meritocracy: Overcoming the Fear Factor" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.
“Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.”
“I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.”
“As soon as you think you have a firm idea you allow it to dissolve and you let go of it, particularly when it comes to a stylistic or aesthetic identity. In fact, you only really find out what it is when you deconstruct it; so, yeah, that's a sort of collage sensibility of having a lot of voicings coming from all over the place and not necessarily trying to shape them or try to commodify them. It keeps you in the living language... an opportunity to not be governed so much by intellect.”
“Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.”
“The belief in God is not therefore based on the perception of design in nature. Belief in design in nature is based upon the belief in God. Things are as they are whether there is a God or not. Logically, to believe in design one must start with God. He, or it, is not a conclusion but a datum. You may begin by assuming a creator, and then say he did this or that; but you cannot logically say that because certain things exist, therefore there is a God who made them. God is an assumption, not a conclusion. And it is an assumption that explains nothing.”
“Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.”

Source : Karen Joy Fowler (2012). “Sarah Canary”, p.49, Hachette UK
“I've forgiven all my enemies - even those who have stolen money from me.”

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