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• People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be, not what you nag them to be.
• I am against all hobbies. I have been against ever since I figured out that nothing I ever do is considered a hobby.
  All my life I have had to fill out forms that ask about hobbies....
• Skinner: Edna! Krabappel: Seymour. Skinner: Mind if I sit down?
  Krabappel: It's a free country. Skinner: I, I don't follow you....
• Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them.
  All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves....
• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
  -- Antoine de Saint Exupery...
• Rangnekar's Modified Rules Concerning Decisions 1) If you must make a decision, delay it.
  2) If you can authorize someone else to avoid a decision, do so....
• The following appeared as part of a recommendation made by a faculty member to the president of a large university.
  "Never once in our 150-year history as a university have we clarified our objectives....
• Shouldn't you be doing something productive?
• All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children.
  All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function....