And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
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-- Gloria Steinem Never practice two vices at once.
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-- Michael Leunig Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
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Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
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-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
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-- Anonymous There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
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Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Travel Services Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
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-- George Bernard Shaw Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
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