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A committee is a group of the unwilling chosen form the unfit, to do the unnecessary.

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A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.

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A committee is a body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.

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A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee.

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dump a good idea on a meeting table. It will belong to the meeting.

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A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.

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The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.

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In the war for individual rights, common sense becomes the first and major casualty.

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Good sense is the master of human life.

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Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it.

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Common sense is seeing things as they are, and doing things as they should be done.

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Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person.

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Ninety-nine percent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings which develop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

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Use non-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S = Smile O = Open Posture F = Forward Lean T = Touch E = Eye Contact N = Nod.

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What is the shortest word in the English language that contains the letters: abcdef? Answer: feedback. Don't forget that feedback is one of the essential elements of good communication.

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The careful application of terror is also a form of communication.

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In the last analysis, what we ARE communicates far more eloquently than anything we SAY.

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A phoneless cord is a great device for people who love peace and quiet.

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Get in touch with the way the other person feels. Feelings are 55% body language, 38% tone and 7% words.

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You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me.

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I am a Marxist... of the Groucho tendency.

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Our fear that Communism might some day take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti-communism already has.

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People are know by the company they keep. Companies are known by the people they keep.

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Comparisons are odious.

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He who feels no compassion will become insane.

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The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.

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Those who complain about the way the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it.

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Don't complain that you are not getting what you want, Just be glad you are not getting what you deserve!

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Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

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If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.

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Computers in the future will weigh no more than 1.5 tons. [Quoted in Popular Mechanics 1950]

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Conceit is a queer disease -- it makes everyone Sick except the person who has it.

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Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which storms burst forth when one makes a puncture in it.

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If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.

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If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.

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Before water generates steam, it must register 212 of heat; 200 will not do it. The water must boil to generate enough steam to move an engine. Lukewarm water will not run anything. Lukewarmness will not generate life's work.

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A wise man admits his weaknesses. I'd admit mine if I had any.

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He who denies all, confesses all.

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Courage comes from wanting to do it well. Security comes from knowing you can do it well. Confidence comes from having done it well.

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God knows best; he hasn't arranged your anatomy so as to make it easy for you to pat yourself on the back.

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The values of the Walt Disney company: The four C s: Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, Consistency, and the greatest of these is Confidence.

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True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.

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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

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The trouble with self-made men is that they tend to worship their creator.

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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

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There are two enemies to every bill proposed in Congress, the fools who favor it and the lunatics who oppose it.

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A bad conscience has a very good memory

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God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won t.

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A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.

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One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.

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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

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A conservative sees a man drowning 50 feet from shore, throws him a 25 foot long rope, and tells him to swim to it. A liberal throws him a rope 50 feet long, then drops his end and goes off to perform another good deed.

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Some consultants are like the bottom half of a double boiler: They get all heated up but don't know what's cooking.

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Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.

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When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.

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Everybody has a hot button. Who is pushing yours? While you probably cannot control that person, you CAN control the way you react to them.

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It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.

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Never give anyone total access to your pockets, your pockets, your purse or your mind.

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We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.

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Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.

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The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency. At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world.

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We are not put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

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If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.

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The majority of people have not the courage to correct others because they don't have the courage to bear correction themselves.

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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Courage is knowing what not to fear.

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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Courtesy should be a continuous action, not something to be turned on and off like a faucet.

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The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men.

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Courtship -- A man pursuing a woman until she catches him.

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A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

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The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way.

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The creative process involves getting input, making a recommendation, getting critical review, getting more input, improving the recommendation, getting more critical review... again and again and again.

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One measure of how creative you are is how you respond to changes in your circumstances and environment. How flexible are you? Consider how water adapts to its environment: evaporation, condensation, snowflake, melting, flowing, goes around rocks, fills containers, etc.

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I have asked a lot of my emotions --one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now.

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Buying on trust is the way to pay double.

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In God we trust; all others must pay cash.

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Crises bring out the best in the best of us, and the worst in the worst of us.

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Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.

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He who throws dirt always loses ground.

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For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

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There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.

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Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

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