Isaac Asimov in "Intelligence" wrote:

"...I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80...Yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hastened to him with it, watched him anxiously...listened to his pronouncements as though they were divine oracles- and he always fixed my car....
My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in and of the fact that a small subsection of that society has managed to foist on the rest as an arbiter of such matters."

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In Model for Writers by A. Rosa and P. Eschholz , "Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name" was featured where James Lincoln Collier wrote::

"He had extinguished his anxiety the only way he could- by confronting it."
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On nonverbal communication, Ronald B. Adler and Neil Towne in "Looking In, Looking out 9th Ed." wrote:

"This impossibility of not communicating is extremely important to understand because it means that each of us is a kind of transmitter that cannot be shut off. No matter what we do, we give off information about ourselves."

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Carl T. Rowan in "Unforgettable Miss Bessie" wrote:

"But do you know what really takes guts? Refusing to lower your standards to those of the crowd."

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George Orwell in "A Hanging" wrote(describing a man on death row walking to the site of execution):

"He walked clumsily with bound arms...And once, in spite of the men who gripped him by each shoulder, he stepped slightly aside to avoid a puddle on the path.

It is curious, but till that moment I have never realized what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man. When I saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle, I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide. This man was not dying, he was alive just as we were alive.

...He and we were a party of men walking together, seeing, hearing...the same world; and in two minutes, one of us would be gone--one mind less, one world less."

Leslie Savan in "Slam Dunks and No-Brainers:Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and Like...Whatever" wrote:

"Trends overlap, shrink, bulge, and shrink again....

Not only is it impossible to always keep up-to-date, but the compulsion to do so make you look like a fool...

Always riding the cutting edge not only can produce some nasty burns, it's much less interesting than understanding the long-lasting stuff."


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Agnes Catherine Poirier in "Touche" said:

"Politeness is good...but too much of it verges on hypocrisy."

From "Come Be My Follower" by Watch Tower:

"To endure...is not simply a matter of experiencing inescapable hardship...Endurance involves steadfastness, keeping the right mental attitude and a hopeful outlook in the face of trials."

Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in " Built to Last" wrote:

"...the continuity of superb individuals atop visionary companies stems from companies being outstanding organizations, not the other way around."

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Charlotte Bronte in "Jane Eyre" wrote:

"...there are grains of truth in the wildest fable."

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte:

"The act pleased me, as it lifted me out of the passivity of my existence."

(said Jane Eyre after helping someone in distress)



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