"The fact that theyre a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that its National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles."

-- Barney Frank

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“It is like football with coaches, like, 'We're only going to think about the next game.' It is really true, all you think is, 'Okay, we have to make a good next episode.”
“Simplicity: The New Competitive Advantage in a World of More, Better, Faster.”

Source : Bill Jensen (2003). “The Simplicity Survival Handbook: 32 Ways to Do Less and Accomplish More”, p.4, Basic Books
“Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing.”
“Being holy . . . does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at all; it means being liberated from religiosity and religious pietism of any sort; it does not mean being morally better, it meas being exemplary; it does not mean being godly, but rather being truly human.”
“Love manufactures every man into a poet while the fever lasts.”
“None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.”
“God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.”
“The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.”

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