"Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one could use words freely, as one liked, without hard and fast rules of lexical conduct."

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Source : Simon Winchester (1998). “The surgeon of Crowthorne: a tale of murder, madness and the love of words”

Simon Winchester

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“My audience has developed so that they come to listen and are quiet, Thus I can work in a limited volume range and explore all the subtleties that can happen, which is my favorite part of the music.”
“Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that America and the novel are dead, I hope we can have more great American novels as alive as this one.”
“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.”
“I would be researching seventeenth-century garden design or I would be doing something with Pepys, but I just kept using all of it to write about Margaret Cavendish. It took me a long time to realize that I just wanted to write a book about her. Years.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“It's your body. Tell it what to do.”
“Learning to let go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisisâ€”small or large, brother-in-law or end-of-quarter office lockdownâ€”like a beach ball on water. The next time a problem arises in your life, take a deep breath, let out a sigh, and replace the thought Oh no! with the thought Okay.”
“Fate of empires depends on the education of youth”
“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”

Source : Harvard Business Review, John P. Kotter, Michael Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg (2015). “Leadership, Strategy, and Innovation: Health Care Collection (8 Items)”, p.1721, Harvard Business Review Press

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