In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
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duties.
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-- Katherine Cebrian 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
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-- Jim Elliott I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
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The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Arts and Entertainment
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Arts and Entertainment Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Arts and Entertainment
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Arts and Entertainment "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 The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Arts and Entertainment
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
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-- Fred Astaire I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Arts and Entertainment Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Arts and Entertainment
The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
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-- W. Somerset Maugham Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Arts and Entertainment You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
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-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
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Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Arts and Entertainment I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
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-- Adlai Stevenson Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Arts and Entertainment Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Arts and Entertainment
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Arts and Entertainment "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Arts and Entertainment
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Arts and Entertainment blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
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