"I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business."

-- Edmund Burke

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“Whatever the composition of a firm, if it is to do good business it should be a place where everyone is encouraged to progress toward complexity- or at the very least a place that does not make it more difficult to achieve personal growth.”
“Menopause, perimenopause, childbirth and breast-feeding can all cause a woman's sex drive to shut down.”

Source : "Dissatisfied, ladies? Tips to reach the Big O". TODAY interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.
“We have not yet seen what man can make of man.”
“It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.”
“The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor.Â It bids us break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed scandalous, social inequalities.”
“You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.”
“There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends for its rightness upon some little point which he is never told. It is not only so of cooking: it is so of splicing a rope; of painting a surface of wood; of mixing mortar; of almost anything you like to name among the immemorial human arts.”
“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”

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