"Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work."

-- Max McKeown

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“What's so funny about peace, love and understanding”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, music.avclub.com. September 12, 2011.
“Only through the Eucharist is it possible to live the heroic virtues of Christianity: charity, to the point of forgiving one's enemies; love for those who make us suffer; chastity in every age and situation of life; patience in suffering and when one is shocked by the silence of God in the tragedies of history or of one's own personal existence. You must always be Eucharistic souls in order to be authentic Christians”
“What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to ring true. True to what? True to life as the reader knows life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the adult, the grown-up reader. Such a reader has outgrown fairy tales, and we do not want the fantastic and the impossible. So I say to you that a novel must stand up to the adult tests of reality.”
“What I've learnt is when you walk into a family argument and people tell you it's about principle don't get involved. There is more to life than principles.”

Source : "'Ed Miliband Has an Angry, Insurgent Side’". Interview with Gary Gibbon, www.channel4.com. September 26, 2011.
“I was very lucky to be offered a lovely piece of property to build a career on. I started building a house on it, but it wasn't necessarily a house I would want to live in. So I ripped down that house, and I worked with these great lumberjacks to build a really cool cabin-a place I want to drink whiskey in and hang out until the sun rises.”
“At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.78, A&C Black
“It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?”

Source : Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “The Habit of Fear”, p.212, Open Road Media
“I was sitting in Arizona when I received Dogs on Cape Cod. Seeing the joy these dogs had playing on the beaches and in the marsh grasses on the Cape carried me back to my family visits in Harwich. The dogs are so full of life, it just made me smile.”

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