"It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one."

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Source : Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

Peg Bracken

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“I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.”
“Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed. There is a desperate need for creative Christians to redeem the visual arena from both forms of excess, cutting through all the false glamour, tawdry baseness and dense obfuscation.”
“I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.”
“Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.”
“Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.”
“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.”

Source : Attributed in "The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time" by Leslie Pockell, November 23, 2004.
“Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.”
“We know they have nothing to do with Islam because our politicians keep telling us that, and they are all Islamic scholars. (They are, aren't they?) Yes, the violence is coming exclusively from Muslims, but only because their religion (the one that has nothing to do with Islam) tells them to kill unbelievers, meaning people who don't follow the religion with a knife to our throat that has nothing to do with Islam.”

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