Great Energy comes from Great Tension

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We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. – Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld


Flattery is the infantry of negotiation. – Lord Chandos



When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. – Edmund Fuller



Always define your terms. – Eric Partridge



Vows begin when hope dies. – Leonardo da Vinci



The greater the contrast, the greater is the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension between opposites. – Carl Justav Jung



No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. – Henry Louis Mencken

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