"Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof."

-- Alice Walker

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“We are superior to the competition because we hire employees who work in an environment of belonging and purpose. We foster a climate where the employee can deliver what the customer wants. You cannot deliver what the customer wants by controlling the employee.”
“Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me.”

Source : "13 Questions With Sean Paul". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.
“It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political creatures”
“When I was very young my mother sang to me at bedtime and my dad would often play the banjo or fiddle in the evening. I knew music was important and central to everything, most particularly it had a powerful healing value and created a sense of peace and security. This stood out to me as I always felt the world was precarious and dangerous, and music supplied those moments of real peace and safety.”
“However many people complain about the "red tape," it would be sheer illusion to think ... continuous administrative work can be carried out in any field except by means of officials working in offices.... The choice is only that between bureaucracy and dillettantism.”
“Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short.”
“Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.”

Source : Richard Whately (1856). “Essays [third Series] on the Errors of Romanism Having Their Origin in Human Nature”, p.144
“Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.”

Source : "Timescape". Book by Gregory Benford, 1980.

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