Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. ~Sarah Lacy
#quotes #sarah-lacy #economy #china

Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
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As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a wow outcome! ~Tom Peters
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose. ~Warren Christopher
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I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. ~Grandma Moses
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My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent. ~Miles Teller
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Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water. ~Jim Costa
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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I'm very independent. ~Kate Bosworth
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again. ~Mara Wilson
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I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work. ~Bill Murray
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I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor. ~Ray Liotta
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. ~Margaret Heffernan
#quotes #margaret-heffernan #business

I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. ~Ron Perlman
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. ~Edmond About
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I never read the tabloids. ~Dana Carvey
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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