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“I wouldn't intentionally hurt anyone in this world. I wouldn't hurt them physically or emotionally, how then can people so consistently do it to me?”
― Go Ask Alice
― Go Ask Alice
“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.”
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“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”
― Dracula
― Dracula
“Bias in the workplace is a form of tribalism – you’re either in or out”
― Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction
― Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction
“Among Chuang-tzu's many skills, he was an expert draftsman. The king asked him to draw a crab. Chuang-tzu replied that he needed five years, a country house, and twelve servants. Five years later the drawing was still not begun. "I need another five years," said Chuang-tzu. The king granted them. At the end of these ten years, Chuang-tzu took up his brush and, in an instant, with a single stroke, he drew a crab, the most perfect crab ever seen. [Calvino retells this Chinese story]”
― Six Memos for the Next Millennium
― Six Memos for the Next Millennium
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