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“The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.”
―Isaac D'Israeli

“A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.”
―Herb Kelleher

“The cloud which appeared to the prophet Ezekiel carried with it winds and storms, but it was environed with a golden circle, to teach us that the storms of afflictions, which happen to God's children, are encompassed with brightness and smiling felicity.”
―Nicolas Caussin

“If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.”
―J. M. W. Turner

“How many butts am I gonna have to cut before you people realize not to be dummies?!”
―Jess Margera

“She had faith in words, believing in their ability to carry inexpressible messages, trusting that what cannot be said can somehow be borne aloft by what can be said. She was right.”
―Frank Conroy

“Our spirit of enjoyment was stronger than our spirit of sacrifice. We wanted to have more than we wanted to give. We tried to spare effort, and met disaster.”
―Henri Philippe Pétain

Source/Notes:
As quoted in the article: “Danger: Men Not at Work!” by Hatton W. Summers, Nation’s Business, May 1941, p. 15

“Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new.”
―Jean Alesi

“My grandfather tell me not to hold the knowledge to myself; I have to pass it on. Before, some navigators in Micronesia, they never share the knowledge. But me, I share it to everybody, because I know maybe sometime we lose it.”
―Mau Piailug

Source/Notes:
From Ferrar, Derek (March 2006). Papa Mau's Legacy. Ka Wai Ola o OHA. 23 (3):12.

“One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator.”
―Susan Blackmore

“He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.”
―Lee R. Raymond

“I tell you, when we travel with our own band and we're on the road... Well, I can't even believe this is work.”
―Jane Monheit

Source/Notes:
CNN.com (7/29/2001)

“Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!”
―Marie Corelli

“I consider myself a pretty rounded guy. I've done pretty elite things in business, sport and academics and all of a sudden I woke up one morning and I'm a 'big, black, British, gay guy'. That was frustrating at times”
―John Amaechi

Source/Notes:
Commenting on people's reactions to him coming out.[[1]]

“Make Hamilton Bamilton, make Douglas Puglas, make Percy Bercy, and Stanley Tanley and where would be the long-resounding march and energy divine of the roll-call of the peerage?”
―George Augustus Henry Sala

“The most stylish country in the world is Italy.”
―Nick Rhodes

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