"Jessica: â€œYou great drunken jackass!â€ Dain: â€œI did not give you leave to use my Christian name."

-- Loretta Chase

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“Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'”
“People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.”
“Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal way and count the miles." As I said, the virtues are at the midpoint between excess and laxness. That is why it is written, "Do not turn to the right or the left" (Prov 4:27) but travel on the "royal way" (Num. 20:17). Saint Basil also says, "The person who does not allow his thoughts to incline towards excess or deprivation but directs it to the midpoint, that of virtue, is upright in heart."”
“I have several friends that have outlasted both of my marriages that are raising wonderful children together that have been together in gay unions for over 25 years. So they're doing a better job than I am!”
“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.”

Source : Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco
“The city might be savage, stray dogs might share the streets with grimy urchins whose blank eyes reflected the knowledge that they might soon be covered over, blinded forever, by the same two pennies just begged from some gentleman, and no one in the fuming, fulminous boulevards of trade might know who actually ran Ambergris-or, if anyone ran it at all, but, like a renegade clock, it ran on and wound itself heedless, empowered by the insane weight of its own inertia, the weight of its own citizenry.”
“Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.”

Source : Josiah Royce, John Joseph McDermott, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (2005). “The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce: Logic, loyalty, and community”, p.898, Fordham Univ Press
“It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.”

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