"From so much of this seriously-intended ***** there rises, even when it is lewdly or boisterously comic, the acrid smell, unmistakable, of self-dislike."

-- Storm Jameson

#Self Quotes #Smell Quotes #Comic Quotes

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow,”
“The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.”
“Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.”
“Music doth extenuate fears furies appeaseth cruelty abateth heaviness and to such as are wakeful it causeth quiet rest; it cures all irksomeness and heaviness of soul.”
“Anger is precious. A silverback uses anger to maintain order and warn his troops of danger. When my father beat his chest, it was to say, Beware, listen, I am in charge. I am angry to protect you, because that is what I was born to do. Here in my domain there is no one to protect.”
“What is God looking for? He is looking for men and women whose hearts are completely His - completely.”
“Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.”
“That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.”

Source : Mary Parker Follett (2013). “Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization”, p.24, Routledge

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