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• Strategy: A long-range plan whose merit cannot be evaluated until sometime after those creating it have left the organization.
• STRATEGY: A comprehensive plan of inaction.
• To be, or not to be: that is the question: whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?
  To die: to sleep: No more; and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation devoutly to be wish'd....
• it is done by a man who cannot afford to fail, one whose unique position depends upon the fact that all he does must succeed.
  A great brain and a huge organization have been turned to the extinction of one man....
• Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence. Contrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present is not necessarily consent, even the reluctant variety.
  They simply may sit in stunned silence and figure ways of sabotaging the plan after they regain their composure....
• Up until now, you have been...uninteresting. It's only now that your life form begins to merit serious attention.
  -- Traveler, "Where No One Has Gone Before", stardate 41263.1...
• Range of Light: Looking eastward from the summit of Pacheco Pass one shining morning, a landscape was displayed that after all my wanderings still appears as the most beautiful I have ever beheld.
  At my feet lay the Great Central Valley of California, level and flowery, like a lake of pure sunshine, forty or fifty miles wide, five hundred miles long, one rich furred garden of yellow Compositae....
• mear: long, vertical mark left on rock surface by a climber whose friction move has failed.
  -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982...