"False zeal is every day bringing true zeal into disrepute."

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Source : Charles Tomlinson (1887). “Essays, Old and New”

Charles Tomlinson

“Lack of understanding is always painful.”
“When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.”
“I can get any retail buyer on the phone with you and get them to verify that not a single retail location in America where there's a PlayStation 3 on the shelf for sale. They've all been sold in a matter of minutes.”

Source : "CE-Oh no he didn't! Part XXIV - Jack Tretton wants to give you $1,200" by Paul Miller, www.engadget.com. February 9, 2007.
“We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.”
“all communication is more or less cross-cultural. We learn to use language as we grow up, and growing up in different parts of the country, having different ethnic, religious, or class backgrounds, even just being male or female - all result in different ways of talking ...”

Source : Deborah Tannen (1986). “That's not what I meant!: how conversational style makes or breaks your relations with others”, William Morrow & Co
“Every director is so different from every other one.”
“Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.”
“You always draw from yourselves even if you're playing the most crazy type of person. What you really want is to be three-dimensional.”

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