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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.
? Work "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Business and Economy When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Business and Economy
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Business and Economy "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Business and Economy
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Business and Economy "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Business and Economy
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Business and Economy The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Business and Economy It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Business and Economy
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Business and Economy The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Business and Economy The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Business and Economy Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Business and Economy There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Business and Economy
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Business and Economy A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Business and Economy There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Business and Economy
