"What you do is ultimately pointless. You could be replaced any day of the week with the first moron who walks in the door. So work as little as possible, and spend a little time (not too much, though) 'selling yourself' and 'networking' so that you will have backup and will be untouchable (and untouched) the next time the company is restructured."

-- Corinne Maier

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“A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that people leave their deepest moral convictions outside politics before they enter.”
“At times some people use force or fraud to take from others without willful, voluntary consent. Normally, the initiation of force to take life is murder, to take liberty is slavery, and to take property is theft. It is the same whether these actions are done by one person acting alone, by the many acting against a few, or even by officials with fine hats and titles.”
“New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of bounds, the supreme expression of both the miseries and the splendors of contemporary civilization, the Macedonia of the United States. It meets the most severe test that may be applied to definition of a metropolis - it stays up all night. But also it becomes a small town when it rains.”
“People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.'”
“They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission.”

Source : Michael A. Ledeen (2007). “The War Against the Terror Masters: Why It Happened. Where We Are Now. How We'll Win.”, p.213, Macmillan
“The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man.”
“All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get.”

Source : Brenna Yovanoff (2011). “The Replacement”, p.64, Simon and Schuster
“Most people aren't really happy, but they aren't unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place to be.”

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