"He only wished to fight and cultivate an anger toward me, thus alleviating his guilt, but I would not abet him in this."

-- Patrick deWitt

#Fighting Quotes #Guilt Quotes #Abet Quotes

“One nourishes one's created characters with one's own substance: it's rather like the process of gestation. To give the character life, or to give him back life, it is of course necessary to fortify him by contributing something of one's own humanity, but it doesn't follow from that that the character is I, the writer, or that I am the character. The two entities remain distinct.”
“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”
“People say that if we work for the Single European Act, women will get their rights, the water will be purer, and training will be better. That is rubbish. It is part of the attempt to consolidate the EEC.”
“I know how this feels: the tightening of the chest, the panic, the what-have-I-done-wait-I-was-kidding. Eating disorders linger so long undetected, eroding the body in silence, and then they strike. The secret is out. You're dying.”
“Natural capitalism is not about making sudden changes, uprooting institutions, or fomenting upheaval for a new social order. Natural capitalism is about making small, critical choices that can tip economic and social factors in positive ways.”
“My 'heroes' are those - like Chuang Tzu and Heidegger - who recognize that the world of experience is a human world, but recognize too that there is a 'way' or a 'source' to which our lives are answerable.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Perhaps the greatest gift we can offer each other is a second chance.”
“The lower the rank of managers, the more they know about fewer things. The higher the rank of managers, the less they know about many things.”

Source : Russell L. Ackoff (2006). “A Little Book of F-Laws”, p.2, Triarchy Press Limited

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