Crooked Roads are Roads of Genius

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Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius. – William Blake




Who grows makes no noise. – German proverb



All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. - Henry Miller



Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity. – Samuel Johnson



Control circumstances and do not allow them to control you. – Thomas A. Kempis



I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun. – John D. Rockefeller



To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian. – Joseph Conrad

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The Only Animal That Can Remain on Friendly Terms with the Victims

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I believe that every right implies a responsibilty; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. – John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. – Samuel Butler

The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins. – Soren Kierkegaard

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. – Thomas Jefferson

He who goes with wolves learns to howl. – Spanish proverb

You and I can never do a kindness too soon, for we never know how soon it will be too late. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

We should keep the Panama Canal. After all, we stole it fair and square. – S.I. Hayakawa

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