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...that's what friends did. Let each other off the hook when they didn't want to talk. ↗

— Lauren Dane

#talking #business

I love having a boyfriend but need to be secure on my own first. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#first #having #i #i love #love

Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#sex #wordplay #change

For Archie was an expert in dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman. ↗

— Annie Proulx

#business

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#like #poetry #should #takes #theology

So I got on with the business of lawyering away at the evidence. Minimizing it. Defending Jacob. ↗

— William Landay

#evidence #mystery #business

Just as a fish doesn't know it is wet, so companies often can't see or feel the very opportunities where they are swimming ↗

— Pam Henderson

#growth #ideas #opportunity #trends #business

Mind your business" had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend. ↗

— Anita Diamant

#friend #friendship #minding-his-own-busines #business

Experts tend to be busy and hyper organized. They want to help you, but the easier you make it for them, the better. They most likely do not have time to read your entire book or try out your 12 hour course, so summarize and highlight the strong points for them. Give them specific guidelines to make it very easy on their part. ↗

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

#book-power #expert-status #getting-endorsements #kytka #business

We heard the United States had a new president, that she was arranging for a loan from the Commonwealth to bail us out. We heard the White House was burning and the National Guard was fighting the Secret Service in the streets of DC. We heard there was no water left in Los Angeles, that hordes of people were trying to walk north through the drought-ridden Central Valley. We heard that the county to the east of us still had electricity and that the Third World was rallying to send us support. And then we heard that China and Russia were at war and the US had been forgotten. Although the Fundamentalists' predictions of Armageddon grew more intense, and everyone else complained with increasing bitterness about everything from the last of chewing gum to the closure of Redwood General Hospital, still, among most people there was an odd sense of buoyancy, a sort of surreptitious relief, the same feeling Eva and I used to have every few years when the river that flows through Redwood flooded, washing out roads and closing businesses for a day or two. We knew a flood was inconvenient and destructive At the same time we couldn't help but feel a peculiar sort of delight that something beyond us was large enough to destroy the inexorability of our routines. ↗

— Jean Hegland

#business