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Quotes by Writer
"Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control."
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"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."
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"The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are."
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"That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing."
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"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."
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"This is an orchestration for an event. For a dance in fact. The participants will be apprised of their roles at the proper time. For now it is enough that they have arrived. As the dance is the thing with which we are concerned and contains complete within itself its own arrangement and history and finale there is no necessity that the dancers contain these things within themselves as well. In any event the history of all is not the history of each nor indeed the sum of those histories and none here can finally comprehend the reason for his presence for he has no way of knowing even in what the event consists. In fact, were he to know he might well absent himself and you can see that that cannot be any part of the plan if plan there be."
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"Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly."
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"Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it's mercenary of me, but there it is."
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"Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion."
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"I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them."
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"It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition."
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"The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils light in your eyes flowers at your feet duties at your hand the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life."
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"Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting."
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"The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him."
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"Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy."
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"All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie."
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"The most ridiculous activity of human mind is questioning. Cognition of reality surpasses both question and answer, however ingenious."
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"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."
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"For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance."
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"For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role."
Help,
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"She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red."
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"The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself."
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"Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear without having so much as a smile for the young future."
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"No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority."
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"Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life."
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"You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you."
Love,
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"I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear."
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"Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment."
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"America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization."
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"I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest."
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