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“The song is over. But the melody lingers on.”
― A Wild Sheep Chase
― A Wild Sheep Chase

“A situation in itself,â€� he said, “is neither happy nor unhappy. It’s only your response to it that causes your sorrow.”
― The Palace of Illusions
― The Palace of Illusions

“With a DO-CONFIRM checklist, he said, team members perform their jobs from memory and experience, often separately. But then they stop. They pause to run the checklist and confirm that everything that was supposed to be done was done. With a READ-DO checklist, on the other hand, people carry out the tasks as they check them off--it's more like a recipe.”
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“Mother, it is no gain, thy bondage of finery, if it keep one shut off from the healthful dust of the earth, if it rob one of the right of entrance to the great fair of common human life.”
― Gitanjali
― Gitanjali

“It seems to me that we generally do not have a correct measure of our own wisdom.”
― The Guide
― The Guide

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