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"When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better."
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"It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history."


"What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much."


"When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better."


"Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business."


"Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections."


"Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it."
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"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."

"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."

"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."
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