"You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical."

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Idries Shah

#People Quotes #Important Quotes #Remember Quotes

“I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.”
“Unbreakable is a little bit Starship Troopers and a little bit Esmay Suiza, with a dash of Firefly for flavor. W. C. Bauers gives us everything we want in our military science fiction, but never allows the hardware and action to overshadow Paen and everyone else caught in the crossfire.”
“Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.”
“Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content.”

Source : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 10), 1968.
“People who live in glass houses must reeeeeallly trust their neighbors.”
“The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul.”
“I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.”
“The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.”

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