"It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more."

-- C. L. R. James

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“For me marketing is about how to present a project.”
“A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.”
“I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings.”
“You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust, then that's it.”

Source : "I think we changed the whole business ethos in India: Mukesh Ambani". Interview with Sudeep Chakravarti, indiatoday.intoday.in. June 30, 1993.
“I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.”
“Have you never, when waves were breaking, watched children at sport on the beach, With their little feet tempting the foam-fringe, till with stronger and further reach Than they dreamed of, a billow comes bursting, how they turn and scamper and screech!”

Source : Alfred Austin, “A Woman’s Apology”
“If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.”

Source : Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Devotional works”, p.120
“There are a few animals that have won themselves a bad reputation even though they have little or no effect on man. They have won their rating through man's interpretation of their attitude towards lower animals. These animals have been seen feeding in what appears to be a savage manner. But this behavior may perhaps be comparable to a man tearing the flesh off a chicken leg with his teeth.”

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