"Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves."

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Source : Danny Silk, Bob Hasson (2017). “The Business of Honor: Restoring the Heart of Business”, p.41, BookBaby

Danny Silk

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“I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.”
“Through her, in microcosm, the wide earth sobbed. The starglobe sank in her; the colours faded. The death-dew rose and the wild birds in her breast climbed to her throat and gathered songless, hovering, all tumult, wing to wing, so ardent for those climes where all things end.”
“The weirdest love stories are always the best”

Source : "Venuto al mondo [Twice Born]". www.imdb.com. September 13, 2012.
“Now when the ancient Egyptians, awestruck and wondering, turned their eyes to the heavens, they concluded that two gods, the sun and the moon, were primeval and eternal; and they called the former Osiris, the latter Isis.”
“An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.”
“Part of the American ethos is that you want to leave something better for your kids than you had and I know that my parents felt that way and I know that my grandparents felt that way and everybody worked hard so that their kids had a better chance. I just don't want to be the first generation that doesn't do that.”
“I'm not a policy expert - I am only arguing that there is more to an education than an economic ticket.”

Source : "Ask the Author Live: Rebecca Mead". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2010.
“There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.”

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