"Changes made by management today make no improvement."

-- Peter R. Scholtes

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“I was telling somebody about in grammar school we used to have the duck-and-cover drills where we'd have to go down to a fallout shelter in the basement. We'd sit on our butts on the ground next to the wall with a textbook over our heads and our knees sort of drawn up to our chest. I don't think they still do that. They're sort of sobering. You leave recess and come in for the apocalypse drill.”

Source : Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.
“There are some current 'theories' that, when divested of begged questions, reduce to the non-controversial statement, 'Here are some facts and there may be some relation between them.'”

Source : Harold Jeffreys (1998). “The Theory of Probability”, p.419, OUP Oxford
“We already get more energy from Canada than from any other foreign country.”
“The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.”

Source : "20 Essential Steps To Mastering The Zen-Like Lifestyle Of Bill Murray" by Dustin Rowles, uproxx.com. January 21, 2014.
“Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.”
“The beauty of getting older is the surprise of what else you can do to make the world a better place with the wisdom that you've accrued over those years.”
“Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.”
“Essentially, wines are fermented grape juice, so I'm trying to make the point that the wine world is about scores and marketing and kind of creating a scarce resource where they don't really exist.”

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