"What Death protects can't be harmed and baby, you're the only thing I protect - Dank, Predestined"

-- Abbi Glines

#Baby Quotes #Dank Quotes #Protect Quotes

“Apple was very close to bankruptcy and to irrelevance [but] you learn a lot about life through death, and I learnt a lot about vital corporations by experiencing a non-vital corporation. You would have thought that, when what stands between you and bankruptcy is some money, your focus would be on making some money, but that was not [Steve Jobsâ€™] preoccupation. His observation was that the products werenâ€™t good enough and his resolve was, we need to make better products. That stood in stark contrast to the previous attempts to turn the company around.”
“Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree, please that person, please other present company, be pleased to stagger rivals, and get something out of it: applause, promotion, a favor, reciprocal praise. Flattery is as social as a banquet.”
“If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up. My father wouldn't have kissed my girlfriend; he would have raped her.”
“Our tolerance of the intolerable found a low threshold as early as the late 1950s with the grotesque excesses of McCarthyism, which destroyed so many honest lives, and then with the insane nuclear arms race and confrontations.”
“Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level.”
“I definitely want to start a family, but that will happen when it's supposed to.”
“Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.”
“Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.”

Source : William John Locke (1922). “A Christmas Mystery: The Story of Three Wise Men”, p.7, Library of Alexandria

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