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Simone Weil


Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.

Maurice Chapelain


The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.

Sam Ewig


Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

Chinese Proverb


A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.

Budd Schulberg


Isn't everyone a part of everyone else

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality


The great discoveries are usually obvious.

Robert Hutchins


The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.

H. Ross Perot


Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

Sir Winston Churchill, on the eve of his 75th birthday


I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

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Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:54:00 GMT
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