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From The Corner To The Corner Office - It's Not Just A Book, It's A Lifestyle!


James A. Barlow

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and...
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JAMES A. GARFIELD If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze...
JAMES A. BALDWIN The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Instead of showing visibly distinct alternate identities, the typical DID patient presents a polysym...
JAMES A. CHU When I first pitched my Navy tent on the island of Espiritu Santo to the north of Vila, the natives ...
JAMES A. MICHENER I have to say, Alejandro Colucci is amazing. I had seen his work several times before I started maki...
JAMES A. MOORE It's not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It's that most people do what they enj...
JAMES A. MURPHY Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country th...
JAMES A. MICHENER When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
JAMES A. BALDWIN When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge...
JAMES A. FORBES Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the s...
JAMES A. FORBES White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.
JAMES A. FORBES The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybod...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
JAMES A. BALDWIN I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small dif...
JAMES A. GARFIELD Yes, the life of an adult entails accepting and in some way being responsible for pain.
JAMES A. AUTRY They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.
JAMES A. MICHENER American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything an...
JAMES A. BALDWIN If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better...
JAMES A. MICHENER If you walk 100 miles into the life you don't want. Often, you must walk those same 100 miles to get...
JAMES A. MURPHY I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complain...
JAMES A. MICHENER If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of...
JAMES A. MICHENER If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart; the spirit should...
JAMES A. GARFIELD If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit sh...
JAMES A. GARFIELD [Thomas] Carlyle believed that every man has a special duty to do in this world. If he had been aske...
JAMES A. FROUDE Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
JAMES A. FROUDE