"Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor."

-- Sophocles

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“Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism.”

Source : S. R. Ranganathan (1950). “Colon Classification”
“Never leave well enough alone.”

Source : "Never Leave Well Enough Alone". Book by Raymond Loewy, 1951.
“I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.”

Source : "Cisco Tech Chief Outlines The Advantages Of Being A Woman In Tech". Interview With Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2011.
“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.”

Source : E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.470, Delphi Classics
“The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ's return, both of which are imminent.”
“In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities, the killer and the mugger come out of the anonymous dark, their faces unrecognized, their motives obscure.”
“Cats possess so many of the same qualities as some poeple that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.”
“I've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves against the sides of life's vast lampshade like fireflies or moths.”

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