A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.
~ John Ruskin
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Category Archives: 0859 – Quote Unquote
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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
~ John Steinbeck
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Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Contemporary intellectuals have given up the Enlightenment assumption that religion, myth, and tradition can be opposed to something ahistorical, something common to all human beings qua human.
~ Richard Rorty
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy — but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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A committee is an animal with four back legs.
~ John le Carré
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There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer.
~ Peter Drucker
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Academic excellence is not a strong predictor of career excellence. Across industries, research shows that the correlation between grades and job performance is modest in the first year after college and trivial within a handful of years.
~ Adam Grant
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.
~ Lewis Mumford
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