"Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market."

-- Karl Marx

#House Quotes #Construction Quotes #Process Quotes

“Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?”
“One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.”
“I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.”
“A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns.”
“What business needs now is exactly what women are able to provide, and at the very time when women are surging into the work force. But perhaps even more important than work force numbers is the fact that women -- who began this sweeping entry in the mid-seventies -- are just now beginning to assume positions of leadership, which give them the scope to create and reinforce the trends toward change. The confluence is fortunate, an alignment that gives women unique opportunities to assist in the continuing transformation of the workplace ...”

Source : Sally Helgesen (2011). “The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership”, p.39, Crown Business
“When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.”
“Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.”
“Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.”

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