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“Employees who are important don’t need to be told, and if they are not important, being told doesn’t make them so.”
― AWOL on the Appalachian Trail
― AWOL on the Appalachian Trail
“When you attempt to capture the highlights without burdening yourself with the tedium, the highlights lose the foundation that elevates them to the status of “highlight.”
― AWOL on the Appalachian Trail
― AWOL on the Appalachian Trail
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“When I look back on all the worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.”—Winston Churchill”
― AWOL on the Appalachian Trail
― AWOL on the Appalachian Trail
“The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.”
― Down and Out in Paris and London
― Down and Out in Paris and London
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