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Quotes by Writer
"The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols."
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"If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom."
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"I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control."
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"The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues....[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings."
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"The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten."
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"I love you all, even those I don't particularly like. That's you, Beryl."
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"A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting."
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"Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it."
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"When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed."
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"Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context."
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"On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy."
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"I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time."
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"And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy."
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"From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it."
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"As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement. I knew it was going to work."
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"Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them."
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"After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once."
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"There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands."
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"The lonely become either thoughtful or empty."
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"Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole."
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"Safaris through ancestral memories teach me many things. The patterns, ahhh, the patterns. Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me the most. I distrust extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It's true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who from such governments. Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies. Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner."
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"I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with."
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"Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything."
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"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
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"With ceremony, with forms of politeness and reassurance, they borrowed the waters of the River and its little confluents to drink and be clean and irrigate with, using water mindfully, carefully. They lived in a land that answers greed with drought and death. A difficult land: aloof yet sensitive."
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"The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not."
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