"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God??"

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George Deacon

#Badass Quotes #Doe Quotes #Power Corrupts Quotes

“Not forgiving prolongs hurt and anger and leads to smoldering resentment, which will make us miserable until it kills us. Resentment destroys the perception of reality. As we try to bend the world to accommodate our resentment, fear, and selfishness, we become less accurate in understanding the world. This eventually destroys our ability to cope successfully with life.”
“The decision-makers should communicate the customer pictures and the logic of the strategies and actions. That communication allows employees throughout the organization to implement the strategies and actions, tweaking them appropriately in response to variations in the marketplace. It also allows employees to recognize information in the marketplace that contradicts the customer pictures, either because the pictures were not entirely correct or because customers have changed.”

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“Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.”

Source : Mavis Gallant (2016). “The Collected Stories”, p.647, Everyman's Library
“It's that deep-seeded societal gender norm that women, for some reason, aren't elite athletes, when we are. We really are. I think we fight against that a bit.”
“Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our pastors and masters run our society, however much they pull to pieces that which they claim to be keeping intact, nature remains fecund, human beings are born with human traits, sometimes human strength outweighs human weakness, and human grace shows itself amid human ugliness. â€˜In the bloodiest times,â€™ as our play has it, â€˜there are kind people.â€™”

Source : Eric Bentley (2008). “Bentley on Brecht”, p.200, Northwestern University Press
“We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.”
“I've pretty much always had the same haircut my entire life.”

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“The call to make that decision is not mine, because obviously I won't resign and I'm not a quitter.”

Source : "Tottenham sack Andre Villas-Boas after 5-0 home defeat by Liverpool" by Rob Burnett, www.mirror.co.uk. December 16, 2013.

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