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#1

“All the managers I interviewed had the same sense of identity and self-assurance. None of them were arrogant. Instead, they were clear about who they were and what needed accomplishing. They used that sense of self to engage their team and learn each team member’s strengths and contributions. Their courage and confidence were infectious to their team and to anyone who crossed their paths.”
― Raymond Wheeler, Lift: Five Practices Great Managers Do Consistently: Raise Performance and Morale - See Your Employees Thrive

tags: advancement, continuous-improvement, educational, employee-engagement, growth, leadership, management, people-development, progression

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#2

“Happiness from long ago that hasn’t carried into today turns into a sadness that’s too much to bear.”
― J.S. Latshaw, A Gallery of Mothers

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#3

“People who are not capable of boarding by group number do not deserve the right to vote.”
― J.K. Franko

tags: civil-rights, duties, right-to-vote, rights, suffrage, voting, voting-rights

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#4

“If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

tags: debt, opal

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#5

“What GOD has joined together, let no man put asunder. Your consummation is an eternal binding. It is a glorious mystery not realized by many, and abused by most." ~SCRIBER~”
― Lucian Bane, The Judgement

tags: inspirational-life, loving-someone, quotes, words-to-live-by

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#6

“... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.”
― Malcolm X, Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power

tags: freedom, uprising, young-people

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#7

“If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.”
― Ray Bradbury

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#8

“Pretty' doesn't mean 'good,' you know, Geneva. Real life isn't like fairy tales. 'Pretty' simply means that by accident you've got things arranged on your outside in an extra-pleasing manner. It doesn't tell a thing about your inside.”
― Natalie Babbitt

tags: beauty, inner-beauty, pretty, pretty-not-good, truth

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#9

“One aristocratic leader's club was known for, "an atmosphere of solemn tranquility, in which reading, dozing, and meditation took precedence over conversation.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

tags: quiet, thought-life

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#10

“horripilate.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

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#11

“a dream half-waking, broken and uneasy, of the small gods of small places; gods of hills and woods and streams and crossways; the gods who still haunt their broken shrines, waiting in the dusk beyond the lights of the busy Christian churches, and the dogged rituals of the greater gods of Rome.”
― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills

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#12

“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

tags: change, childhood, future

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#13

“we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

tags: delightful-old-timey

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#14

“Human beings, however, were different from apples and oranges: The flavor of the peel did not reliably predict the taste of the pulp.”
― dean koontz, Sole Survivor

tags: humanity

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#15

“He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

tags: friendship, life, love, romance

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#16

“His forty-third year. His small time's end. His time-
Who saw Infinity through the countless cracks
In the blank skin of things, and died of it.”
― A S Byatt

tags: possession

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#17

“Most people have two emergency modes. But Connor always knew he had three: Fight, Flight, and Screw Up Royally. It was a dangerous mental circuit.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

tags: connor, lev, neal-shusterman, risa, unsouled, unstrung, unwholly, unwind

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#18

“الأنوثة يا صديقة أن تُنجبي طموحك ، أن تُهذبي فِكرك ، أن ترتبطي بالكُتب قبل أي ارتباط”
― اجاثا كريستي

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#19

“I had thoroughly been a girl so long by then that I'd grown to like it, got used to it, got used to not having to lift things, and have folks make excuses for me on account of me not being strong enough, or fast enough, or powerful enough like a boy, on account of my size. But that's the thing. You can play one part in life, but you can't be that thing. You just playing it. You're not real.”
― James McBride, The Good Lord Bird

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#20

“Vin: I don't know -- and it's all your fault, you know. I used to understand everything. Now it's all confused.

Kelsier: Yes, we've messed you up right properly.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

tags: humor-relationships

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#21

“I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

tags: cat, cat-people, cats, integrity, meditation, peace, sereneity, spirituality, wisdom, zen, zen-master

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#22

“Cornered again, Mr. Cook reluctantly made a third duplicate; then a fourth, a fifth. The city, albeit large, soon became thick with William O. Cooks. He would come upon himself at corners, discover himself asking himself for lights, end up, quite literally, beside himself.”
― Richard Matheson, The Best of Richard Matheson

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#23

“We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

tags: inspirational, life

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#24

“That mirror, that's one I hate to let go, he said. That was my daughter's the whole time she was growing up. It probably seen her more than me--everything from a baby up to twenty years old. Sometimes I wonder if all that might still be inside it. Got to make an impression on a thing, reflecting the same person every day.”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

tags: mirrors

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#25

“[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

tags: culture, deification, kim-jong-il, north-korea, personal-life, privacy, sadism, worship

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#26

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: dumbledore

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#27

“The two of us stood gazing at the gleaming rows without any idea that it was nearly all useless and that the days of the old medicines were nearly over. Soon they would be hustled into oblivion by the headlong rush of the new discoveries and they would never return.”
― James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small / All Things Bright and Beautiful / All Things Wise and Wonderful: Three James Herriot Classics

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#28

“But now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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#29

“On every side was the silence, pressing upon them with a tangible presence. It affected their minds as the many atmospheres of deep water affect the body of the diver. It crushed them with the weight of unending vastness and unalterable decree. It crushed them into the remotest recesses of their own minds, pressing out of them, like juices from the grape, all the false ardours and exaltations and undue self-values of the human soul, until they perceived themselves finite and small, specks and motes, moving with weak cunning and little wisdom amidst the play and inter-play of the great blind elements and forces.”
― Jack London, White Fang

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