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- I feel bad for people who don't drink because when they wake up in the morning and get out of bed...Thats the best they are gonna feel.
- Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998)
- There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough for Love
- The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
- Colin Powell (1937 - )
- I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable.
- Warren Buffett (1930 - ), The Warren Buffett Way by Robert Hagstrom+
- The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
- Stephen Bantu Biko, Speech in Cape Town, 1971
- Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club
- The opposite of war isnt peace its creation
- Jonathan Larson, R.E.N.T
- The National Rifle Association says, 'Guns don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps.
- Eddie Izzard
- Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately.
- Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Dilbert Blog: Atheists: The New Gays, 11-19-06
- If you aren’t going to say something directly to someone’s face, than don’t use online as an opportunity to say it. It is this sense of bravery that people get when they are anonymous that gives the blogosphere a bad reputation.
- Mena Trott, Times Online, 12-06-06
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