"The Japanese, implementing a complex, long-term, and ultimately successful strategy to dominate the U S consumer-electronics market, attacked Pearl Harbor."

-- Dave Barry

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“Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas.”
“One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should be fair, or that someday it will be. It's not and it won't. When we make this mistake we tend to spend a lot of time wallowing and/or complaining about what's wrong with life. "It's not fair," we complain, not realizing that, perhaps, it was never intended to be.”

Source : Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company
“A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of a problem that a scientist can comprehend, the greater are his chances of finding a truly adequate solution.”

Source : "The Development of Operations Research as a Science". Operations Research, Volume 4, No. 3, pp. 265-295, www.jstor.org. June 1956.
“The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.”

Source : "Tens of thousands march in London against coalition's austerity measures" by Kevin Rawlinson, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2014.
“I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.”
“If you don't fail, you're not even trying.”
“You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and ancient whiskey - the sacred incense of the drinking man.”
“The world is what it is and won't be bargained with.”

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