"The biggest mistake was that I didn't hire all the right people. I should have done better reference checks. I should have defined the roles in a much more professional manner. I hired people who just couldn't do the job."

-- Lillian Vernon

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“I've been getting publishing royalties and stuff like that. I have just been lucky. They come in at the right time. Sometimes they don't, but I am not wealthy or anything like that. I just love to work. I would rather work three hundred and something days out of the year. I would rather be working. They don't know. I love playing. Then I can really get my music together.”

Source : "A Fireside Chat With Pharoah Sanders". All About Jazz Interview, www.allaboutjazz.com. March 21, 2003.
“There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.”
“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

Source : Anna Quindlen (2009). “Being Perfect”, p.15, Random House
“God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.”

Source : "Mathematical Circles Adieu: A Fourth Collection of Mathematical Stories and Anecdotes". Book by Howard Whitley Eves, 1977.
“The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.”

Source : "English as a Global Language" David Crystal, Cambridge University Press, (p. 124), 2003.
“I'm constantly looking for something that will be pushing the audience to new scares in horror movies.”
“Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears.”
“I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them.”

Source : James L. Buckley (2010). “Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State”, p.246, ReadHowYouWant.com

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