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“Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast, That still the knot, in spite of death, does last; For as your tears, and sorrow-wounded soul, Prove well that on your part this bond is whole, So all we know of what they do above, Is that they happy are, and that they love. Let dark oblivion, and the hollow grave, Content themselves our frailer thoughts to have; Well-chosen love is never taught to die, But with our nobler part invades the sky.”
Source : Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.115
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“My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not to make some statement about the harp - somehow has ... coloured people's interpretations of the music and projected an idea of childlike or fairytale quality or innocence. Which sometimes prevents people from listening to the songs the way I would like them to be listened to.”
Source : Sydney Morning Herald, October 10, 2005.
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“The ability to connect and influence people, that's the job of a leader. And we're all leaders at some level.”
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“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?”
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“Change before you have to.”
Source : Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons
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“Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, 'More light.' Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's Field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light.”
Source : "Northern Exposure". www.imdb.com. 1990-1995.
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“of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.”
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“Betwixt the stirrup and the ground Mercy I asked, mercy I found.”
Source : 'Remains Concerning Britain' (1605) 'Epitaphs'