"I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided."

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Fernando Pessoa

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“But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success.”
“Christmas Pie Lo! now is come our joyfull'st feast! Let every man be jolly; Each room with ivy leaves is dressed, And every post with holly. Now all our neighbours' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning; Their ovens they with bakemeats choke, And all their spits are turning. Without the door let sorrow lie, And if for cold it hap to die, We'll bury it in a Christmas pie, And ever more be merry.”
“With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.”
“Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.”

Source : "Yep, Eric Cantor Really Said All of These Things" by Austin Tedesco, www.boston.com. June 11, 2014.
“Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.”
“I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.”
“Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man’s most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.”
“Secretly, the Bush administration is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA politically, setting the stage for a North American Union designed to encompass the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. What the Bush administration truly wants is the free, unimpeded movement of people across open borders with Mexico and Canada.”

Source : "North American Union to Replace USA?" by Jerome Corsi, humanevents.com. May 19, 2006.

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