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• FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative. -- Henry Kissinge
• Old timer, n: One who remembers when charity was a virtue and not an organization.
• Those who are prospering do not argue about taxes.
• There are four kinds of people: those who sit quietly and do nothing, those who talk about sitting quietly and doing nothing, those who do things, and those who talk about doing things.
• eality-distortion field n. An expression used to describe the persuasive ability of managers like Steve Jobs (the term originated at Apple in the 1980s to describe his peculiar charisma).
  Those close to these managers become passionately committed to possibly insane projects, without regard to the practicality of their implementation or competitive forces in the marketpace....
• Hospitality, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.
  -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Those who talk about the future are scoundrels. It is the present that matters.
• They who provide much wealth for their children, but neglect to improve them in virtue, do like those who feed their horses high, but never train them to the manage.
  -- Socrates (470?-399 B.C.)...