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“Happiness is a roadside flower growing on the highways of usefulness; plucked, it shall wither in thy hand; passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit. Trample the thyme beneath thy feet; be useful, be happy.”
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“The internal and external ethics of an organization must be the same; you cannot talk about minimum wages for poor people and not pay minimum wages to your own workers.”
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“From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.”
Source : Sappho (1965). “Lyrics in the Original Greek”, Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor books [1965]
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“Far too many people spend a lifetime headed in the wrong direction. They go not only from the cradle to the cubicle, but then to the casket, without uncovering their greatest talents and potential.”
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“I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.”
Source : Deborah Tall (1993). “From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”
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“History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms of certificates, diplomas, or degrees. Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition that they are not to become masters of reality.”
Source : Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 401 U.S. 424, (432), 1971.
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“If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.”
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“Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give.”
