"You can't be normal and expect abnormal returns."

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Source : Jeffrey Pfeffer (1998). “The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First”, p.9, Harvard Business Press

Jeffrey Pfeffer

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“At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.”
“Very often people who live in a ghetto accept some of the stigmatisation against them. I mention the case of a Japanese minority the Burakumin, which was pure Japanese in descent, but which was concerned with dirty work: leather work, cadavers, and some other things.There was a famous story of an old man who asked: 'Do you yourself believe you are the same as the Japanese?' And the outsider said: 'I do not know, we are dirty.' This kind of conscience was never there in the surroundings in which I lived. One always felt as someone whom could be proud of, being both German and Jewish.”

Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu
“He's a good sportsman but his best at world trash talking.”
“I love zombies. I don't know how else to answer that... I have trouble falling asleep, so there are certain scenarios I use in my head to relax. I find sniping zombies very relaxing.”
“The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea”

Source : Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.4, Rowman & Littlefield
“Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.”
“I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.”

Source : Sam Rayburn (1978). “"Speak, Mister Speaker"”
“I did not share the enthusiasm of certain politicians for the National Front leader, it was because I had noticed, in the past, some strange contradictions between Mossadeq's declared ends and his actions. Officially he defended nationalist anti-colonialism and was the most intransigent patriot who declared that no concessions or advantages should be granted to foreign powers. He described his doctrine as a "negative balance" and in fact his greatest failing was that he was negative.”

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