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- The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
- Edwin Whipple
- With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. . . to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Within the problem lies the solution
- Milton Katselas
- It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935), Jr.
- When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death.
- J. P. Donleavy
- The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.
- John P. Grier
- Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word "academic" in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.
- Myron Tribus
- What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.
- W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993)
- It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.
- W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993)
- It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together.
- Lloyd Dobyns and Clare Crawford-Mason, Thinking About Quality
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