"Life's better without braces."

-- Bruce Eckel

“Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.”
“Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.”

Source : Henry Mintzberg (2000). “The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning”, p.333, Pearson Education
“The child is the father of man.”
“Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life either you decide not to do it professionally and just enjoy it and just do it every weekend, but if you want to be a professional musician- hardest thing I could imagine and I really wasn't capable of doing it.”
“Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.”

Source : Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.25, Macmillan
“We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.”
“I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.”
“I had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in an authentic way.”

Source : "Charlotte Ronson, Beauty Mogul". Interview with Sarah Howard, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 26, 2011.

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