"O lost, And by the wind grieved, Ghost, Come back again."

-- Thomas Wolfe

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“Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.”

Source : Anthony Horowitz (2006). “Stormbreaker”, p.187, Penguin
“I've known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family liked everyone else but them. That hurts, and that's as deep a hurt as you can possibly get. I've known people that would have problems with their love life. This is kind of how blues began - out of feeling misused, mistreated. Feeling like they had nobody to turn to. Blues don't necessarily have to be sung by a person that came from Mississippi as I did, because there are people having problems all over the world.”
“The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past.”

Source : Frank Hyneman Knight (1997). “The Ethics of Competition”, p.179, Transaction Publishers
“Dad says it's good to be a freak when normal people are idiots.”
“I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys.”
“We are not alone.Â Even now there are thousands of beings in heaven watching what is going on down hereâ€”a â€˜great cloud of witnesses,â€™ the Scripture says.Â It reminds me that there is so much more to our existence than what we can see.Â What we do reverberates through the heavens and into eternity.”
“I think that the language that we use is a ritual, that my [maternal] grandmother was called "Big Mama" is a ritual, that my daughter calls my father "Baba" and my mother "Mama" is a ritual. There are common African-American rituals that are a part of my experience. If I ever get married some day I would like to jump the broom.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“Perhaps the hardest lesson of all is that there is no such thing as 'getting it right'-least of all with the promulgation of quality.”

Source : Mary Walton (1991). “Deming management at work”, Putnam Publishing Group

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