"Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without."

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Source : James R. Schlesinger (1968). “Planning-programming-budgeting: Uses and Abuses of Analysis”

James R. Schlesinger

#Arbitrary Quotes #Pressure Quotes #Remarkable Quotes

“Fascism is [...] arbitrary rule by a charismatic head of state.”
“We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.”
“My mother had me sort the eyes”

Source : Elizabeth Graver (1991). “Have you seen me?”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
“Sometimes I suspect most of the media commentariat are suffering from Munchausen syndrome.”

Source : "Only quality journalism can save us, says Sun editor Rebekah Wade" by Stephen Brook, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2009.
“Some day I will show all the [people] who say I was a success just because of my pretty face. Sometimes I wish I had a really bad car accident so my face would get smashed up and I'd look like Eddie Constantine.”
“I'm very judgmental person. It's one of my faults.”
“By the time I was done with the car it looked worse than any typical Indian car that has been driven all its life on reservation roads, which they always say are like government promises - full of holes.”
“I try to remind myself that nothing is permanent. The chaos and the stress of life won't last forever. Eventually, it will go away and I will once again be left with nothing but happiness.”

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