"To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]"

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Cardinal Richelieu

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“One of the best ways to convince someone is to use a telling example, a story, a narrative. When Steve Jobs announced a new product, he told a story, exzlaining how a product would change the world as we know it. He turned Apple into a story whose challenges and adventures you want to hear about.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.”

Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.”
“Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?”
“Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It's actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in.”
“I am convinced that most companies don't maximize their barter possibilities. Instead of aggressively reducing costs by trading their services with those of their suppliers, they seem content to pay top dollar for everything.”

Source : Mark H. McCormack (1990). “What They Still Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School”, Bantam
“For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.”
“Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.”

Source : Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

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