"The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there."

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Source : "A Civil Campaign". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#Differences Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Principles Quotes

“The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.”
“Most difficult thing in the world, to write a play. Do you know the story of Shaw at the Fabian society? H.G. Welles said "I'm terribly sorry I've missed the last five meetings, I've been terribly busy, I'm engaged in writing a scientific pamphlet on the effects of radioactivity in 1984 and I've produced a novel, and various pieces of science fiction to do, and I've had a bit of personal trouble, and I had my copy to bring out for the newspaper." Shaw leapt up and said, "I've not missed one meeting, and I have written a play!" hardest thing in the world. If it were easy they'd all be at it.”
“Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.”

Source : "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.
“The cable operators are paying to show content. The most important content you have is the broadcast stations. They take the position that over the air is free to people, so it should be free to them.”
“When people warn me about someone - the label head or the publishing head - that somebody is difficult, I'm in heaven.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.
“It's the greatest thing in the world, natural enthusiasm. You are nothing without it.”
“The only loser who walks away from a wise man is the one who walks away.”
“Terroir - the taste of place - was important from the early South of the first Indian, African, and Europeans to the nineteenth-century South. During that time, Southerners ate far more locally and seasonally, from the ground they knew and grew up on. That idea connects back to today. You are a place. And as a Southerner, the food you place in your body speaks of your personal history, and of the broader Southern history.”

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