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"If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off."
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"The Earth's health is the only standard that is all-encompassing enough to overcome the ethnic, cultural, religious, and national tensions that are rending the world asunder. Only the Earth can become the central axis around which which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans."
"We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast."
"In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory."
"Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower."
"Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far."
"There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken."
"Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth."
"We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth."
"Germany can generally only pay if the Corridor and Upper Silesia will be handed back to Germany from Polish possession, and if besides somewhere on the earth colonial territory will be made available to Germany."
"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."
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"A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist."
"The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity."
"Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases."
"If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance."
"The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money."
"Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters."
"If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was."
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