"Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek the grimy queen of dread machines, if you your errant shadow miss.' Now that's quite good! As a Prophetic Utterance, Third Class (Vague Hints and Mysterious Signs), you couldn't ask for better. It's downright plain-spoken!"

-- Catherynne M. Valente

#Queens Quotes #Self Quotes #Class Quotes

“Thatâ€™s what seems the most sad to meâ€”that neither of them even think thereâ€™s a possibility they can be together.”
“Example moves the world more than doctrine.”
“Change masters are - literally - the right people in the right place at the right time. The right people are the ones with the ideas that move beyond the organization's established practice, ideas they can form into visions. The right places are the integrative environments that support innovation, encourage the building of coalitions and teams to support and implement visions. The right times are those moments in the flow of organizational history when it is possible to reconstruct reality on the basis on accumulated innovations to shape a more productive and successful future.”

Source : Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1984). “Change Masters”, p.306, Simon and Schuster
“To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.”
“Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.”
“Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement”
“Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils.”
“Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime.”

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