"Alarmed successively by every fashionable medical terror of the day, she dosed her children with every specific which was publicly advertised or privately recommended...The consequence was, that the dangers, which had at first been imaginary, became real: these little victims of domestic medicine never had a day's health: they looked, and were, more dead than alive."

-- Maria Edgeworth

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“Character is more important than talent.”
“I once went to a demonstration in Aachen against fare increases on public transport. A police officer pulled out a bunch of my hair, and there were a lot of violent beatings. That's when I thought to myself: You'd better leave it alone.”
“The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries by unfriendly regimes are idling.”
“Without Allah on your side, you can do nothing. With Allah on your side, there is nothing you cannot do”

Source : Tao Porchon-Lynch's motto on the official website, taoporchonlynch.com.
“The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.”
“I am now in a place where I have to be truer to myself first before anyone else. If you're not real, how can you expect others to be real with you? The older you get; you aim to have an understanding of who you are as a person. But, I can honestly say, I am a better me than I've ever been in younger years.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.”

Source : "Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard". Interview with Martha Lagace, hbswk.hbs.edu. August 11, 2008.
“If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.”

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