Gerald Abrahams Quotes
The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do.
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But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.
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When you look at Washington, it's really not that big. And its economy is completely dependent on those two companies. When they're doing well, the whole state does all right, but when they're down, there's nothing to fall back on.
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Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past.
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What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts.
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What better way to honor to such agents of chaos as Keith Partridge and Charles Manson?
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It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.
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You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.
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My answer to everything is to keep shining brighter. Just keep shining as bright as you can.
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The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
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Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.
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I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me.
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You always invest the money you earn. That's the only way you can really speed up your fortune.
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Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The passion for order and the genius for construction, which are part of man's natural endowment, get full play there. The man who has grown great sees from the top of his tower what he can make, if he so wills, of the swarming masses below him.
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We're doing what we want to do, and that's why the kids respect us.
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Do more.
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What am I supposed to do if I go bald? Get a wig? Fat, goofy, gay, wig. I might as well get a piano and start an Elton John tribute act!
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The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do.
