"The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that."

-- Bill Kurtis

#Boss Quotes #Important Quotes #Let It Go Quotes

“This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with it consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it. . . .”
“I like Mitch Daniels on the fiscal conservative issues. You disagree with him on this idea that social issues, you takeoff the table. I do that for two reasons. I think the fiscal issues in a sense are a symptom of a lot of the deeper cultural issues in America. I don't think they are as disconnected as he thinks.”
“When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.”
“I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.”
“What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness,”
“The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.”
“There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.”
“People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.”

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