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My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#asset #complemented #ever #every #greatest

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#me #patience #surprised

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#become #decisions #intelligence #made #many

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. ↗

— James Whistler

#conversation #going #impossible #other #people

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. ↗

— E. B. White

#good #handy #less #man #more

Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,—in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home? ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#possessions #technology #travel #beauty

I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#california #career #career politicians #done #had

You know, I think, people of all stripes in California, Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals, frankly, as I have traveled the state, the number one issue is jobs. And they are looking for which candidate can get the economy back on track. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#california #candidate #conservatives #democrats #economy

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#critical mass #idea #induce #mass #presence

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time. ↗

— Frances E. Willard

#along #everything #going #law #moves