"When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss."

-- Al Neuharth

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“Because I'm playing Dirk Gently [ in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency], I'm so fond of Dirk. I really see Dirk's vulnerability, and you get that, more and more. You'll start to see a little bit more of Dirk's backstory, why he behaves the way he does, and why he's doing what he's doing. I see a lot of his vulnerability, his sensitivity and his insecurity.”
“I never go out to be photographed, never. I go to events because they're fun.”
“...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that amusement is over, nature will return, and be where it was, being rather diverted than overcome by such speculations.”

Source : Gilbert Burnet (1745). “An Exposition of the Thirty Nine Articles of the Church of England”, p.176
“It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a whole scheme of government out of the air like a rabbit out of a hat. True, many of them had read and studied enough about the science of politics to put the average statesman of today to shame. But political science was to them an extremely practical topic of discussion, dealing with the extremely practical business of running a government--not, as today, a branch of higher learning reserved for the use of graduate students.”

Source : Fred Rodell (1986). “55 Men, Story of Constitution”, p.22, Stackpole Books
“All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou are bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.”
“To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat.”

Source : Greg Bear (2014). “The Venging: Stories”, p.189, Open Road Media
“Sometimes we want what we want even if we know itâ€™s going to kill us.”
“I'm a sucker for sad disco pop.”

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