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• What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them? -- Roger von Oech
• Lobster: Everyone loves these delectable crustaceans, but many cooks are squeamish about placing them into boiling water alive, which is the only proper method of preparing them.
  Frankly, the easiest way to eliminate your guilt is to establish theirs by putting them on trial before they're cooked....
• Lobster: Everyone loves these delectable crustaceans, but many cooks are squeamish about placing them into boiling water alive, which is the only proper method of preparing them.
  Frankly, the easiest way to eliminate your guilt is to establish theirs by putting them on trial before they're cooked....
• Lobster: Everyone loves these delectable crustaceans, but many cooks are squeamish about placing them into boiling water alive, which is the only proper method of preparing them.
  Frankly, the easiest way to eliminate your guilt is to establish theirs by putting them on trial before they're cooked....
• How come you are so good at finding excuses?
• Marge: How was your day at work, dear? Homer: Oh, the usual.
  Stand in front of this, open that, pull down this, bend over, spread apart that, turn your head that way, cough....
• Bart: What's the matter with you, soldier! Boy: It's my nerves, sir.
  I just can't stand the barking any more. Bart: Your nerves!...
• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capcable of being.
  -- Johann W. von Goethe...