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- No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
- Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
- Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
- What Every Computer Consultant Needs to Know:
1) In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.
2) Do not believe in miracles. Rely on them. - Murphy's Computer Laws (Finagle's Rules)
- An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
- Stephen Covey, Principle-centered Leadership
- You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.
- M. Shawn Cole
- Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
- Baron Henry Peter Brougham
- There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), The Prince (1532)
- Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- Virtue is insufficient temptation.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
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