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• An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
  -- John H. Patterso...
• Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
  -- Henri-Frederic Amiel...
• Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us.
  Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind. -- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)...
• A belief is not true because it is useful. -- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)
• In order to see Christianity, one must forget almost all the Christians.
  -- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881) "Amiel's Journal" (1883)...
• Who decides who is a "REAL" programmer?
• We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities.
  Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity....
• An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
  -- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)...
• For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
  -- Henri Frederic Amiel...