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We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. . ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#leadership #leadership

Leaders create a legacy daily. ↗

— Steve Gutzler

#leadership-development #leadership

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#amuse #children #instruction #like #live

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals ↗

— Henry Miller

#morals #nationalism #religion #science #education

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ↗

— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#everyday #everyday life #glamour #golden #haze

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#life #self-determination #life

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire. ↗

— Willa Cather

#life

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. ↗

— John Milton

#censorship #ideas #intellect #life

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#identity #life #self #life

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. ↗

— Marie Curie

#fear #feared #less #may #more