"Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings."

-- Doug Larson

#Family Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Splendid Quotes

“My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.”
“Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if you had never set foot in Rwanda, Fossey, you pain-in-the-ass saint, I do not believe in prayers or souls, but I will pray for your soul, I will remember you for all of my days, in gratitude for that moment by the graves when all I felt was the pure, cleansing sadness of returning home and finding nothing but ghosts.”
“I love coffee, I love tea, I love the Java Jive, and it loves me. Coffee and tea and the Java and me, A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup.”
“I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.”
“The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.”
“When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.”
“The places I've worked in the past, I always stayed three years and moved on.”
“I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.”

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