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- No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.
- Croesus of Lydia
- The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins
- The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- I can endure my own despair but not another's hope.
- William Walsh, Song
- Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.
- Corazon Aquino
- Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise -- bureaucrats.
- Alvin Toffler
- If I had to sum up in one word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.
- Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
- The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
- Robert P. Vanderpoel
- A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
- Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)
- I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
- Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
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