"Their throats were bare for God."

-- Jeanette Winterson

“The biggest message I've given our team, and I think it's really important, is first of all, no one can take away what happened last year. It's obviously a fun year, a terrific year. But I think a big mistake would be to try to compare themselves or ourselves to last year's team. I think the key really is, and I told them this: for you as a group, you're a different team.”
“Only recently have people begun to recognise that working with suppliers is just as important as listening to customers.”
“Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.”
“When we escape from this earth, do we suppose we are going to heaven? Do you suppose you are going to the earth that Adam came from? that Eloheim came from? where Jehovah the Lord came from? No. When you have learned to become obedient to the Father that dwells upon this earth, to the Father and God of this earth, and obedient to the messengers He sends-when you have done all that, remember you are not going to leave this earth. You will never leave it until you become qualified, and capable, and capacitated to become a father of an earth yourselves.”
“At the end of the day, anybody who thinks there's a reward for nothing, ends up losing.”

Source : Interview with Steve Sailah, www.abc.net.au. June 2, 2000.
“The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.”

Source : Kate Atkinson (2013). “Human Croquet: A Novel”, p.20, Macmillan
“I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.”
“After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?”

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