The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism. — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
“He had pretended to be cruel for so many years that the pretense was still what he reached for first.” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“A veil of pretense can definitely conceal your dumbness but then it assures the proliferation of your dumbness instead of stagnating it… — Ayesha Copy Share Image
all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The natural impulses of every thoroughbred include his sense of honor; his love of fair play and courage; his dislike of pretense… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
How to fool yourself into feeling younger: When you go to restaurants, always check a coat and a skateboard. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
How can one be pleasing to God when one is inflated with pride and self-love under the pretense of striving for Gods… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
We assume that others are receiving the kind of appreciation we want for ourselves, and we proceed on the assumption that since… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Any large extension of the Government into business affairs - no matter what the pretense and no matter how the the extension… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Where's that toxic rhetoric coming from? Let's not make a false pretense of balance: it's coming, overwhelmingly, from the right. It's hard… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
In fact, when I met Kit Harington first, he was pretty much feeling how I'm feeling today - at a photo shoot… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading: Was it done, is it being done, or is something… — Amrom Harry Katz Copy Share Image
Over the first two weeks of the Donald Trump administration, Steve Bannon has emerged as one of the most powerful figures in… — Amy Goodman Copy Share Image
Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a… — William Borah Copy Share Image
He pulled the Carstairs family ring from his finger and held it out to Will. "Take it." Will let his eyes drift… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody,… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretenses… — Lionel Strachey Copy Share Image
All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of… — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world. — Robert Langlands Copy Share Image
And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Employment is an employee’s kissing of an employer’s ass. A salary is the employer’s pretense to be cleaning his ass.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense. — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
of the world and drudgery of business , seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence. — David Hume Copy Share Image
You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind. — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
“The vice president (Nixon) seems like a man who is acting like a nice man rather than being one.” — Ann Whitman Copy Share Image
“Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort… — Eugene Gladstone O'Neill Copy Share Image
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