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All you have to do is say "yes." Don't make some big project out of it. Don't make some big deal out of it. Just… — Adyashanti
In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers were feared. Finally… — Laozi
I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early… — Henry David Thoreau
Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces… — W. Edwards Deming
There are plenty of things that are unknown, but are assumed reasonably to exist, even in the most basic sciences. Maybe 90 percent of the… — Noam Chomsky
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we… — R. Buckminster Fuller
The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable. — W. Edwards Deming
We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we… — Alan Watts
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark… — Walter Bagehot
Don't fear the unknown. Embrace the opportunity. Failure is not permanent it is the essence of learning. — W. Brett Wilson
It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest, and… — Alan Bradley
In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-people who were… — Wilfred Burchett
Why are we now going into space? Well, why did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to ourselves is to… — Gene Roddenberry
There's no use diversifying into unknown companies just for the sake of diversity. A foolish diversity is the hobgoblin of small investors. That said, it… — Peter Lynch
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown… — Anne Fadiman
When you've managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown - either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own… — Tim Cahill
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown. — Stephen Gardiner
Faith is an adventure; it is the courage of the soul to face the unknown. But that courage springs from the hope and confidence of… — Henry Van Dyke
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie. — Alexander Pope

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