"Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics."

-- Virginia Woolf

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“The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.”
“Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]”
“Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.”
“It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.”

Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway”, p.3, Yearling
“In novels and autobiographies, the first positive move that the immigrant makes towards assimilation is to buy himself a suit of city clothes.”

Source : Jonathan Raban (2017). “Soft City: Picador Classic”, p.40, Pan Macmillan
“He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.”

Source : Christopher Pearse Cranch (1844). “Poems”, p.38
“The military tends to be a traditional place. Traditional culture, traditional men are often attracted to serving in the military.”
“My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.”

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