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it is very possible to be a divine man and to be recognised as such by no one.
“Of course, there are no rules for specifying what looks good or even any way to define it. The intuitive nature of this task was illustrated by one engineer's remark: "When you ask me how I did this I will say 'I don't know.”
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“Labor turnover is one of the most significant causes of declining productivity and sagging morale in both the public and private sectors.”
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“If anything they did the opposite by inhibiting the development of expertise needed to know when to confirm to prescriptive procedures and when to go beyond them. In this, procedural rules seek to transfer judgement by codifying it. This may work some of the time, but it cannot work all of the time because judgement is not procedural. There can be no substitute for judgement, and as well no escaping that the expert has it but the novice does not.”
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“I sat alone, on a boulder that was larger and flatter than most, and I smoked a cigarette. I smoked in those days because, like everyone else in the world who smokes, I wanted to die at least as much as I wanted to live.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“Khaderbhai once said that every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret. It mightn't be true of everyone, but it was true enough for me. The little good that I've done in the world has always dragged behind it a shadow of dark sinpiraction. What I do know now, and didn't know then is that , in the long run, motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad. When all the guilt and shame for the bad we've done have run their course, it's the good we did that can save us. But then, when salvation speaks, the secrets we kept, and the motives we concealed, creep from their shadows. They cling to us, those dark motives for our good deeds. Redemption's climb is steepest if the good we did is soiled with secret shame.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
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