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“[The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.”
Paul Murray Kendall
“Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot masturbate”
Dave Barry
“For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the anvil, bear-When you are the hammer, strike.”
Edwin Markham
“And where two waging fires meet togetherThey do consume the thing that feeds their fury.Though little fire grows great with little wind,Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.”
William Shakespeare
“Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new - created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessi”
William Law
“Expenditure rises to meet income.”
C. Northcote Parkinson
“There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.”
Avril Lavigne
“Endless meetings, sloppy communications and red tape steal the entrepreneur's time.”
James L. Hayes
“A meeting between two beings who complete one another, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle”
Adolf Hitler