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- We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
- Charlton Ogburn, "Merrill's Marauders", Harpers Magazine, January 1957
- Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
- Anne Rice (1941 - )
- Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
- H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937)
- I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.
- Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )
- Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- Will you succeed? Yes you will indeed!
(98 and 3-4 percent guaranteed.) - Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991), "Oh, the Places You'll Go"
- About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether we (Soviet Union) exist. If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations, and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it our not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
- Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971)
- I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success.
- Martin Van Buren (1782 - 1862), taking over from Andrew Jackson in 1837
- The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.
- Andrew Jackson (1767 - 1845), 1821
- We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evidence that the universe was designed to allow for life.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
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