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- The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation. ...
The family is strongest where objective reality is the most likely to misinterpreted. --Don DeLillo
- "Using a key to gouge expletives on another's vehicle is a sign of trust, and friendship." --Ignignot, ATHF
- The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much.
- Africa is nothing like 'The Lion King.' I think that movie took a lot of artistic license.
- Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility -James Thurber
- We fill pre-existing forms
and when we fill them
we change them
and are changed.
- You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Happiness is only real when shared.
- It's excellence, not happiness, that we admire most.
- Where there's muck, there's brass
- For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed,
they must be interrupted.
- We must acknowledge that nobody is ever fully knowable -- maybe especially not those closest to us. What animates and motivates others is very often a stew of secrets they will take to their graves.
- My daddy told me when I was a boy, "The only way you can be different from other people is to do some shit they don't want to do" -- Wynton Marsalis
- At twenty-nine one exchanges a great vague possibility for a small hard reality
- Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of
nearly 4bn years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think
that humans are somehow the culmination. Our sun, however,
is less than halfway through its lifespan. Six billion years
from now, it will not be humans who watch the sun's demise. Any
creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we
are from bacteria or amoebae.
- Business isn't about buying and selling.
The powerful motivator in our lives isn't money; it's the opportunity to learn,
grow in responsibilities, contribute to others, and be recognized for achievements.
Thus, management can be the most noble of professions, if it's practiced well.
No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility,
be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team.