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“The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development.”

Quote by Margaret Heffernan

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Margaret Heffernan

Margaret Heffernan is a British writer and entrepreneur known for her insightful views on leadership and collaboration. Her work explores human behavior and team dynamics, emphasizing the importance of trust and transparency in organizational success. more

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Book:A Bigger Prize: How We Can Do Better than the Competition

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“The Great Being saith: Human utterance is an essence which aspireth to exert its influence and needeth moderation. As to its influence, this is conditional upon refinement which in turn is dependent upon hearts which are detached and pure. As to its moderation, this hath to be combined with tact and wisdom as prescribed in the Holy Scriptures and Tablets.”

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“Should the fragrance of Thy praise be shed abroad by any of the divers tongues of the world, out of the East or out of the West, it would, verily, be prized and greatly cherished.”

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Book:Prayers and Meditations

Source: Prayers and Meditations

“Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.”

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Book:Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel

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“Missing someone has to be one of the worst human emotions. All the other feelings like anger and fear and horror get some much more airplay, as if their intensity gives them more value, but whereas those emotions come in violent bursts and are gone again, the gnawing ache of loss has to be simply endured. It's like background noise, it's always there, it never goes away. You just have to try to block it out, distract yourself, hope that tomorrow the hole they left behind has grown a little smaller.”

“The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.”

Author:Anita Roddick

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“The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.”

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