"Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do."

-- Pat Conroy

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“A culture truly changes only when a new way of operating has been shown to succeed over some minimum period of time.”

Source : John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2015). “Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)”, p.174, Harvard Business Review Press
“The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds of times each year, the nation's governors call upon their Guard troops to respond to fires, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.”

Source : "Gen. Honoré: Sandy recovery is stumbling" by Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.
“If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.”

Source : "How Mariano Rivera Can Help You Hit a Home Run With Your Credit" by Jeanne Kelly, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.
“Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year.”
“I was kind of a little redneck growing up, living on a farm, and running around in the country. I developed hillbilly tendencies, but I wanted to listen to something a little more meaningful than "Redneck Woman" or whatever.”
“I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine.”

Source : "In France, A Citizen Turns 120" by Craig R. Whitney, www.nytimes.com. February 22, 1995.
“You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.”
“While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.”

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