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But thus: if powers divine behold our human actions, as they do, I doubt not then but innocence shall make false accusation blush and tyranny tremble at patience. A Winter’s Tale, Act iii, Scene 2
Q: What is your single most important cooking tool? A: A spoon. The most indispensable kitchen tool is also the most basic, and often the most misused. I'm particular about the spoons used at both Blue Hills — we use one kind, and I think it's the right-size spoon for plating and the right-size spoon for tasting. It's not too big; it's not too small. I want everyone to have the same consistency, because the spoon — whether you're flipping a piece of fish, or you're stirring rice, or you're tasting a sauce — becomes an extension of your hand.
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The lesson from physics is that entropy will always increase, it’s a fundamental law. The message from marketing is that your brand is more dispersed, you can’t fight it, so embrace it and try to find a way to work with it.
The physics is the bigger the more massive an object the more force is needed to change its direction. The marketing is the bigger the brand the more difficult it is to re-position it.
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, hath had no power yet upon thy beauty; thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet is crimson in thy lips, and in thy cheeks, and death's pale flag is not advanced there. Romeo and Juliet, Act v, Scene 3
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He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
Comfort's in heaven, and we are on the earth, where nothing lives but crosses, cares, and grief. Richard II, Act ii, Scene 2
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Iris Murdoch, aka Dame Jean Iris Murdoch
I hate solitude, but i'm afraid if intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company which I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls. It's already hard enough to tell the truth to oneself.
C. S. Peirce, fully Charles Sanders Peirce
Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.
Dan Pink, fully Daniel H. Pink
Lawyers often face intense demands but have relatively little “decision latitude.” Behavioral scientists use this term to describe the choices, and perceived choices, a person has. In a sense, it’s another way of describing autonomy—and lawyers are glum and cranky because they don’t have much of it.
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Men are now feeble in their temper because they are not accustomed to hear the truth. They build their confidence in being personally treated with artificial delicacy, and expect us to abstain from repeating what we know to their disadvantage. But is this right? It has already appeared that plain dealing, truth, spoken with kindness, but spoken with sincerity, is the most wholesome of all disciplines.