I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of Final dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have rested there.
Don’t hide baby monsters under the carpet. They will flourish. They will grow large in the dark. Then, when you least expect it, they will jump out and devour you. You will descend into an indeterminate, confusing hell, instead of ascending into the heaven of virtue and clarity. Courageous and truthful words will render your reality simple,
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It made me wonder, if I ever became a quarterlord, would I cut off fingers to secure my place of power? Because power, I had learned, could be just as seductive as a warm loaf of bread, and the small bit I wielded over them was sometimes all the food I needed.
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Philology has been dethroned from the high place it once had in this court of inquiry. Max Muller’s view of mythology as a ‘disease of language’ can be abandoned without regret. Mythology is not a disease at all, though it may like all human things become diseased. You might as well say that thinking is a disease of the mind. It would be more near
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Contemporary production management has its roots in the Industrial Revolution that occurred during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in England. Until that time, goods had been produced in small shops by artisans and their apprentices without the aid of mechanical equipment. In the early 1900s Frederick W. Taylor approached the management of work as a science. Based on observation, measurement, and analysis, he identified the best method for performing each job. From the Industrial Revolution through the 1960s, the United States was the world’ greatest producer of goods and services, as well as the major source of managerial and technical expertise.
However, in the 1970s and 1980s the U.S. manufacturing superiority was challenged by lower costs and higher quality from foreign manufacturers led by Japan. The Japanese manufacturers started to dominate many industries. In 1990s by the emergence of Internet, the way of making business and the production systems were affected deeply. Production management has changed dramatically over the years. More and more activities are taking place outside the enterprise in factories, distribution centers, offices and storesoverseas, therefore companies need to develop skills in coordinating operations across a global supply chain.
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"Even if I really came from people who were living like monkeys in trees, it was better to be that than what happened to me, what I became after I met you."
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