"Order and system are nobler things than power."

-- John Ruskin

“I am very gratified to have lived to see a revolution in the field of work/life: Everyone - men and women, employees and employers - now has this issue top of mind.”
“If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.”
“Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime!”
“As a journalist, I never isolated myself. I was a journalist at a daily newspaper and every day I went out on the street. Every day I had contact with people. I interviewed the most important writers of the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first century, from Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, and Marguerite Yourcenar to Christa Wolf.”
“How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers.”
“We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.”
“Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.”
“Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.”

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