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• A sense of desolation and uncertainty, of futility
  of the baselessness of aspirations, of the vanity of endeavor, and a thirst for a life giving water which seems suddenly to have failed, are the signs in conciousness of this necessary reorganization of our lives....
• 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....
• Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage.
  He lives by makebelieve. -- W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938...
• Looking for ways to ease my mind about signs that the danger of nuclear war is increasing, I stumbled across one comforting though
  Maybe the Russian missiles won't work ... Why didn't I think of this years ago?...
• Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- A Psalm of Life...
• COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Falling in Love When two people have been on enough dates, they generally fall in love.
  You can tell you're in love by the way you feel: your head becomes light, your heart leaps within you, you feel like you're walking on air, and the whole world seems like a wonderful and happy place....
• TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.
  Excepting in its foetal state, Man is without a tail, a privation of which he attests an hereditary and uneasy consciousness by the coat-skirt of the male and the train of the female, and by a marked tendency to ornament that part of his attire where the tail should be, and indubitably once was....