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"If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away."

Victor Hugo

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)

"So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent."

Sir Winston Churchill

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)

"A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors."

Dalai Lama

"Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.

David Frost

"I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead."

-Achilles

Homer

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)