"Time has passed through me and become a song."

-- Holly Near

#Song Quotes #Time Quotes

“Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.”
“The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts.”
“All over East Africa-indeed, all over Africa-it is normal for people to walk a kilometer or two or six for water. In more arid areas, people walk even greater distances, and sometimes all they find at the end is a pond slimy with overuse. More than 90 percent of Africans still dig for their water, and waterborne diseases such as typhoid, dysentery, bilharzia, and cholera are common. The bodies of many Africans are a stew of parasites. In some areas the wells are so far below the earth's surface that chains of people are required to pass up the water.”
“I think that being good to people - you'll never regret that. Maybe you'll get walked all over, maybe you'll get tricked, maybe you'll get fooled, but I think it's so much better to be kind to people and to trust people rather then to have your guard up and say mean things to people. You never want to be the reason that someone else feels bad.”
“The purpose of a system is what it does. There is after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.”

Source : "Diagnosing the system for organizations" by Stafford Beer, Wiley, (p. 99), 1985.
“As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles.”
“All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.”
“A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.”

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