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“Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You cant be ridiculously disrespectful.”
Source : "Beyond the copy: Xerox CEO keeps focus on the business process". "Conversations from the Corner Office" with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. May 18, 2011.
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“I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed.”
Source : William John Wills (1863). “A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria”, p.69, London : R. Bentley
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“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.”
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“People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance”
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“While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.”
Source : "The Meaning of Life and Other Essays" by A.J. Ayer, ("The Meaning of Life"), 1990.
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“There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.”
Source : Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.404, Macmillan
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“Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
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“Now if you shoot someone, sir, you can get off Scott free. It's the latest thing Mr. Lincoln, can you believe?”