"Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money."

-- Edna Buchanan

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“Renowned management guru Peter F.Drucker looked back at his 65-year consulting career shortly before he died. He concluded that great leaders could either be 'charismatic or dull' or 'visionary or numbers-orientated,' but the most inspiring and effective managers he knew all had said we rather than I.”
“If you love something enough, it will reveal itself to you.”
“The ultimate source of energy, the sun is ready to set. The leaves of the blooming lotus flower in the pond are losing their lustre. A bumblebee, sitting on that lotus is enjoying the romantic pleasure and murmuring passionate songs.”

Source : "Gita Milindam (Song of the Bumblebee)". Book by Manmohan Acharya, July 12, 2010.
“Do what you fear and your fear will die.”
“Like other Americans, I've reconciled myself to the idea that an animal's life has been sacrificed to bring me a meal of pork or chicken. However, industrial meat production - which subjects animals to a life of torture - has escalated the karmic costs beyond reconciliation.”
“I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.”
“Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.”
“I banked my life on a miracle.”

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