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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As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent network, a network in the so called maritime provinces.
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There is at least one more atheism left; it is by its very nature a belligerent form that wants to spread far and wide by propagating itself though books, TV, and other media.
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Too bad, how sad, life's a bitch and then you die.
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Look at what's happening between Main Street and Wall Street. The stock market index is up 136 percent from the bottom. Middle class jobs lost during the correction: six million. Middle class jobs recovered: one million. So therefore we're up 16 percent on the jobs that were lost. These are only born-again jobs. We don't really have any new jobs, and there's a massive speculative frenzy going on in Wall Street that is disconnected from the real economy.
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In my mother's ferocious striving to give me 'everything,' she had never considered that giving me 'everything' would make me different from her, and guilty about what I got. Different and Guilty are not the stuff on which comradeship is built.
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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.
