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- The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).
- Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
- I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
- Sydney Biddle Barrows, in Marian Christy, ''Mayflower Madam' Tells All,' Boston Globe, 1986
- I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784
- They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), 'Fair Weather,' Sunset Gun, 1928
- Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
- Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), Everybody's Autobiography, 1937
- The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
- May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, 1965
- Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
- Anne-Sophie Swetchine, The Writings of Madame Swetchine, 1869
- While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects, bk. 11:11
- After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
- Give all to love; obey thy heart.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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