"The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler"

-- Samuel Morse

#Character Quotes #Parent Quotes #Moral Quotes

“Typical pay increases are not enough to motivate employees, but they are enough to irritate them. â€¦ Even when companies create seemingly significant pay differentiation between low and high performers, the actual cash increase is insufficient to sustain performance â€“ or it drives the wrong behaviors. â€¦ Effective management is a system, not a pay plan. The mistake is that companies try to solve all their problems with pay.”
“The act of writing bears something in common with the act of love. The writer, at his most productive moments, just flows. He gives of that which is uniquely himself. He makes himself naked, recording his nakedness in the written word. Herein lies some of the terror which frequently freezes a writer, preventing him from producing. Herein, too, lies some of the courage that must be entailed in letting others learn how one has experienced or is experiencing the world.”
“But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship it's a revolutionary democracy.”
“Yes to market economy, no to market society.”
“Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone.”
“Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.”
“I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for.”

Source : Edward Weston, Charis Wilson (1993). “Edward Weston: nudes : his photographs accompanied by excerpts from the daybooks & letters”
“I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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