"In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls."

-- James Surowiecki

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“There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing the natural thoughts about self in the thought of One higher than himself, to whose guidance he can commit himself and all men.”

Source : John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.93
“We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.”
“I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.”
“The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release.”
“If I'm going to be working out two hours a day, I may as well have a goal... and I'm pretty competitive by nature. A triathlon is a new fun thing.”
“You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.”

Source : "Whose Line is it Anyway?" with Drew Carey (Episode 201), www.oocities.org. October 7, 1999.
“Payday came and with it beer”
“What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to protect us from metaphysical monsters that go bump in the New Age night.”

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