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We trained hard, but it seemed that everytime we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization. [Select]

(sometimes incorrectly attributed to Petronius Arbiter) {Category: Work and Recreation}

"Political economy" is a phrase consisting of two incompatible words. [Select]

(from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg) [Shop] {Category: Law and Politics}

What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play. [Select]

(W.O.P.R. computer in War Games) [Shop] {Categories: Success and Failure, War and Peace}

A .44 magnum beats four aces. [Select]

{Category: Success and Failure}

A banker will lend you money only if you can prove you don't need it. [Select]

{Category: Wealth and Poverty}

A bend in the road is not the end of the road -- unless you fail to make the turn. [Select]

{Category: Success and Failure}

A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward. [Select]

{Category: Wealth and Poverty}

A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project will take only twice as long. [Select]

{Category: Success and Failure}

A computer can make as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working for 20 years. [Select]

{Category: Success and Failure}

A conceited person never gets anywhere because he thinks he is already there. [Select]

{Category: Success and Failure}

A day for firm decisions! Or is it? [Select]

{Category: Success and Failure}

A diplomat is a man who can convince his wife she'd look stout in a fur coat. [Select]

{Categories: Law and Politics, Men and Women}

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. [Select]

{Category: Wisdom and Ignorance}

A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part. [Select]

{Category: Work and Recreation}

A liberal is someone too poor to be a capitalist, and too rich to be a communist. [Select]

{Category: Law and Politics}

A library is an arsenal of liberty. [Select]

{Category: Wisdom and Ignorance}

A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. [Select]

{Category: Work and Recreation}

A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men. [Select]

{Category: Wisdom and Ignorance}

A man needs a mistress, just to break the monogamy. [Select]

{Categories: Love and Hate, Men and Women}

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. [Select]

{Category: Altruism and Cynicism}

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