"Faced with the almost inescapable conclusion that it had been selling lemons, Nike shifted into make-lemonade mode. Jeff Pisciotta became head of a top-secret and seemingly impossible project: finding a way to make a buck off a naked foot."

-- Christopher McDougall

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“I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.”
“I know that sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings. They see themselves as so inadequate that they feel forced to wear a mask in order to continuously impress the other. I do not want to "hold" you, I want you to "stay" out of your own need for me.”
“Virtual reality is a self-created form of chosen reality. Therefore it exists.”

Source : Joan Lowery Nixon (2013). “Don't Scream”, p.91, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.”
“Most of the jokes that I wrote were funny and there always seems to be an aspect of comedy in my long-form work. I think that's how life is. I think even the more dramatic moments of one's life are often punctuated by very funny comments or situations. I like to say, "Keep your comedy serious and your drama funny, and you'll be pretty true to life."”
“In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.”

Source : Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.106, Library of Alexandria
“A little bit of good can turn into a whole lot of good when fueled by the commitment of a social entrepreneur.”
“Since human good is what humans ought to pursue, the pursuit of interest to Aristotle is then such activity of soul, that which constitutes human good, namely activity that attains desiderata, where the attainment is in accord with virtue.”

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