Again, take someone who’s crippled or deformed; they can’t be tied to the plank without a lot of sweat and heaving, and then the crowds (who can’t see much anyway) get bored and start hissing and catcalling. Meanwhile a queue builds up, and the people at the end of the queue get awkward and start screaming or passing out. If all the clients were young, male, stoical and fit, he’d have fewer problems, but it’s surprising how few of them fall into all those categories.

Hilary Mantel

Stichwörter: execution guillotine french-revolution



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At first they’d thought the guillotine would be a sweet, clean business, but when you have twenty, perhaps thirty heads to take off in a day, there are problems of scale.

Hilary Mantel

Stichwörter: execution french-revolution



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Paranoia is acceptable in the new friendship paradigm. Worrying that your best employees or customers might leave is ok, as long as you put in place an active strategy to offset any possibility of that scenario.

Kevin Kelly

Stichwörter: inspiration motivation execution startups kevin-kelly



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{Comment to Delambre on chemist Antoine Lavoisier's execution during the French Revolution}

Only a moment to cut off that head and a hundred years may not give us another like it.

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Stichwörter: science genius admiration scientists execution praise astronomy chemistry delambre jean-baptiste-joseph-delambre antoine-lavoisier



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Willingness to learn is important, willingness to act on what you learn is critical.

Kevin Kelly DO the pursuit of xcdeptional execution

Stichwörter: inspirational leadership execution startups entrepreneurship



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