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• Nothing gives so much direction to a person's life as a sound set of principles.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerso...
• War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
  The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that Nothing is worth war is much worse....
• None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert -- because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job.
  A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is....
• None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert -- because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job.
  A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is....
• Nothing personal, baby... -- Uncle Frank.
• To me personally, it's nothing personal to me.
• Only a mediocre person is always at his best. -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
• Only a mediocre person is always at his best. -- Laurence Pete
• Don't do things like have smelly, green sneakers. You might get attention, but attention ain't the same thing as love.
  -- Some surefire ways to make a person to fall in love with you -- Alonzo, age 9...