"I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically."

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Source : James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.43

James Boswell

#Writing Quotes #May Quotes #Fancy Quotes

“I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.”

Source : "Big Brother and the Next 50 years". Interview with Declan McCullagh, www.cnet.com. June 05, 2003.
“If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.”
“Liberty is about our rights to question everything.”
“The things of God are of deep import; and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out.”
“As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives. Let the sick and suffering find in her a real angel of comfort and consolation. Let the little ones of the streets cling to her because she reminds them of him, the friend of the little ones.”
“Its not about earning a paycheck, its about doing something good that you believe in.”
“If you feel tempted to use a picture of two hands shaking in front of a globe, put the pencil down, step away from the desk, and think about taking a vacation or investigating aromatherapy.”
“The important thing when it comes to grooming, as when it comes to clothes, is you do not want anything to distract from the strength and power of your ideas,.”

Source : "Dressed for executive success" by Leone Lakhani, www.cnn.com. November 29, 2004.

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