"An achievement-oriented culture is very pro-employee - it's so much more fun than one that isn't. Excellence is a tremendous amount of fun; mediocrity is not."

-- Kip Tindell

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“If we [gays] want to be equal under the law, we must now - as the great heroes of the Civil Rights movement of 1963 and 1964 showed us - turn our attention to the federal government.”

Source : Source: www.bilerico.com
“Americans are not saving enough for retirement.”
“I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.”
“I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.”
“When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians, not fall in meekly behind them. We who protest...are not politicians. We are citizens. Whatever politicians may do, let them first feel the full force of citizens who speak for what is right, not for what is winnable, in a shamefully timorous Congress.”

Source : "Are We Politicians or Citizens?" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. May 1, 2007.
“The price of loyalty is incompetence.”

Source : Jonathan Alter (2008). “Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture”
“Be the Mick Jagger of the mailroom, the Warren Buffet of bookkeeping and the Bono of stapler selling.”
“It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.”

Source : Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Moon Over Soho”, p.10, Del Rey

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