"Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day"

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Source : Sir Thomas Overbury (1756). “The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt. with Memoirs of His Life”, p.252

Thomas Overbury

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“Puerto Rican independence movement wasn't just rooted in some sort of personal intransigence or some passionate Latino temperament. It was rooted in economic and political reality at the time. It also made sense since the founding principles of the United States are supposedly based on government by the consent of the governed, and the sense that all men are created equal.”
“This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.”
“All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the tyranny of the human heart.”
“Apple really has no presence in business, and we think Vista's going to have a huge presence in business. We think we're going to help the corporate IT stack save money.”
“I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.”
“Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.”

Source : Mark H. McCormack (1990). “What They Still Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School”, Bantam
“Here, as in so many other cases, however, it turns out that a very commonsensical idea looks far less attractive when one examines some of the experimental work which is not available to us from the armchair.”
“I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.”

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