"The key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving."

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Bob Burg

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“Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.”

Source : "Punished by Rewards: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes". Book by Alfie Kohn, p. 205, 1999.
“Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of speech, what is the career in which, without the aid of birth or money, he may most easily attain power and reputation in English society? Where is that Goshen of mediocrity in which a smattering of science and learning will pass for profound instruction, where platitudes will be accepted as wisdom, bigoted narrowness as holy zeal, unctuous egoism as God-given piety?”
“It's not always the case that Muslims have been theocrats.”

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“I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living.”
“Obviously, ISU will be primed for revenge and wants to get that bad taste of the last game out of their mouth.”
“The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.”
“I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.”
“The artichoke above all is the vegetable expression of civilised living, of the long view, of increasing delight by anticipation and crescendo. No wonder it was once regarded as an aphrodisiac. It had no place in the troll's world of instant gratification. It makes no appeal to the meat-and-two-veg mentality.”

Source : Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book”, p.15, U of Nebraska Press

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