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Quote by Leigh Brackett

“Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned.”

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Leigh Brackett was an American writer known for her science fiction and fantasy novels. Her works are celebrated for their rich imagination and literary skill, which have had a profound impact on science fiction literature. more

“A company is a multidimensional system capable of growth, expansion, and self-regulation. It is, therefore, not a thing but a set of interacting forces. Any theory of organization must be capable of reflecting a company's many facets, its dynamism, and its basic orderliness. When company organization is reviewed, or when reorganizing a company, it must be loked upon as a whole, as a total system.”

Self Whole Force Growth Company Theory Capable Organization Regulation Expansion Reflecting Facets Interacting Self Regulation Dynamism Orderliness

Book:Zen and creative management

Source: Zen and creative management

“It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.”

Persons Important Happens Political Special Position Drama Qualifications

Book:Systematic Politics

Source: Systematic Politics

“Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?”

Ifs Whole Asks Hours Week Reader Activity Let Me Foolish Gentle Usual Worthless

Book:The Golden Pot and Other Tales

Source: The Golden Pot and Other Tales

“I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream has teased you with such magical mishaps.”

Kind May Dream Doubt Reader Glasses Bottles Vivid Mishaps Vivid Dreams

Book:The Golden Pot and Other Tales

Source: The Golden Pot and Other Tales

“How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.”

Humanity Poor Clear Sky Blue Artificial Roof Blue Sky Dams Remnants Clear Skies Clear Blue Sky

Author:E. T. A. Hoffmann

“Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?”

Real Genius Absolutes Simplicity Real Genius Plies

Book:Old and New Church Music (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

Source: Old and New Church Music (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

“Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.”

Thinking Trying Matter Whole Moving Wonderful Circles

Author:E. T. A. Hoffmann

“As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate.”

People Turns Fall Rate Abortion Contraception

Author:Malcolm Potts

“There is no reward equal to that of doing the most good to the most people in the most need.”

People Inspirational Needs Equal Rewards Helping Others Good Deeds Doings

Book:The War Romance of the Salvation Army

Source: The War Romance of the Salvation Army

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