"All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage."

-- Thorstein Veblen

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“Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.”

Source : Mary Wollstonecraft (1793). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects”, p.19
“I wish I could take back every interview. Over and over again, I read them later, and either I'm misquoted or I said something stupid. I'm just not very good at it.”
“When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that.”
“Whatâ€™s the secret to success? Itâ€™s no secret. You need a winning attitude, honesty and integrity, and a burning desire to succeed.”
“We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.”
“Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.”
“Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.”
“The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it.”

Source : Beilby Porteus (1823). “Works of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, late Bishop of London: with his life”, p.13

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