The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.


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Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
JOHN D. MACDONALD
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is y...
JOHN D. MACDONALD
We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find...
JOHN D. MACDONALD
The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
JOHN D. MACDONALD
To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.
JOHN D. MACDONALD
A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.
JOHN D. MACDONALD
You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place ...
JOHN D. MACDONALD
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid th...
JOHN D. MACDONALD
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is ...
JOHN D. MACDONALD
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is y...
JOHN D. MACDONALD
I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering to...
JOHN D. MACDONALD
I do not like the killers, and the killing bravely and well crap. I do not like the bully boys, the ...
JOHN D. MACDONALD
He challenged the church to rethink its own mission in the radically secular world of the twentieth ...
JOHN D. GODSEY
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is ...
JOHN D. MACDONALD
Never dance in a puddle when there's a hole in your shoe (it's always best to take your shoes off fi...
JOHN D. RHODES
I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and so I told stories about things that I k...
JOHN D. VOELKER
When the world tells me i'm immature, I tell the world i'm just enjoying life, and the simple things...
JOHN D. VU
Vulnerability is the curse of the thinking classes.
JOHN D. MACDONALD
The truth of history lies simultaneously in the substratum of created existence (since all beings ar...
JOHN D. ZIZIOULAS
The truth of history lies simultaneously in the substratum of created existence (since all beings ar...
JOHN D. ZIZOULAS
A person's lack of experience does not determine a person's intelligence or knowledge
JOHN D. VU
Infinity is a player of great significance who appears on the stage only when the crucial questions ...
JOHN D. BARROW
The Right thinks that the breakdown of the family is the source of crime and poverty, and this they ...
JOHN D. CAPUTO
God draws near to the brokenhearted. He leans toward those who are suffering. He knows what it feels...
JOHN D. RICHARDSON
People look to science to give them complete certainty, complete assurance, in the same way they loo...
JOHN D. BARROW
If the Universe possesses intrinsically random elements in their make up, inherited from its quantum...
JOHN D. BARROW
The fact that simultaneous discovery occurs in mathematics, as well as the sciences, points toward s...
JOHN D. BARROW
The ease with which collaboration occurs in mathematical research and the essential similarity of th...
JOHN D. BARROW
Plato argued that the material world of visible things was but a shadow of the true reality of etern...
JOHN D. BARROW
Aristotle's later view of the relationship between mathematics and Nature could not have been more d...
JOHN D. BARROW
In the Middle Ages, this conflict between the Platonic and Aristotelian views of the relationship be...
JOHN D. BARROW
Grosseteste influenced Roger Bacon's ideas about mathematics and Nature. Bacon wrote hundreds of pag...
JOHN D. BARROW
But, as powerful mathematicians like Minkowski and Hilbert found striking harmony between their pure...
JOHN D. BARROW
Moreover, there is no known reason why the geometry of space and time should be described by the par...
JOHN D. BARROW
Impressed by the success of high-level mathematics in the formulation of the general theory of relat...
JOHN D. BARROW
Besides the traditional questions of where or what the Platonic world of perfect mathematical bluepr...
JOHN D. BARROW
Most scientists and mathematicians operate as if Platonism is true regardless of whether they believ...
JOHN D. BARROW
Particle physicists are the most deeply Platonic because their entire subject is built upon a belief...
JOHN D. BARROW
Aristotle draws a sharp dividing-line between the activities of the physicist and those of the mathe...
JOHN D. BARROW
...there are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are...
JOHN D. MACDONALD
Such gratitude! It hurt me to see you lose your professional standing, McGee. Like you were going so...
JOHN D. MACDONALD