"If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket."

-- Charles Bukowski

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“U.S. surgeons operate on the wrong body part as often as 40 times a week.”

Source : "How to Stop Hospitals From Killing Us". www.wsj.com. September 21, 2012.
“I think Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time. Whether he'll do it again in the future, I don't know. But Gov. Romney never has.”
“If there is a hell, then I'll be in good company with a lot of fighter pilots who also had to bomb innocents to win the war.”
“I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I am secretly afraid of animals.... I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which beliesit, and is so tragic a reminder of the lost age when we human beings branched off and left them: left them to eternal inarticulateness and slavery. Why? their eyes seem to ask us.”
“Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything theyâ€™ve known since childhoodâ€¦â€¦. They worry that if theyâ€™re simple, people will think theyâ€™re simple minded. In reality, of course, itâ€™s just the reverse. Clear, tough minded people are the most simple.”
“When the focus becomes 'What would Jesus do?' instead of 'What has Jesus done?' the [conservative/liberal] labels no longer matter.”
“A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.”

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