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They flee from me that sometime did me seek With naked foot, stalking in my chamber. I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek, That now are wild and do not remember That sometime they put themself in danger To take bread at my hand; and now they range, Busily seeking with a continual change. ↗

— Thomas Wyatt

#poetry #change

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read. ↗

— Catherine II

#position #read #talk #want #would

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#itself #lawrence #occasion #population #presents

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings. ↗

— Quintus Tullius Cicero

#avoid #discussion #meetings #policy #public

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#inflicts #itself #mind #result #torments

Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history. ↗

— John Coleman

#global #global warming #greatest #history #hoax

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing. ↗

— David Leavitt

#bitter #childlike #exhausted #figure #having

To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader. ↗

— Howard Schultz

#leadership #leadership

... Have you considered that maybe this is the birth of a new world, that what happens next is a golden opportunity to change the nature of man in a fundamental way?” “Those are brave words, Tiresias.” “New parents can’t afford to be anything but brave, Eddie. ↗

— Joe McKinney

#survival #zombie-apocalypse #change

Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#genius #gift #higherlife #human-resources #ipad