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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A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants someone snooping into his DNA.
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Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed to believe in whatever their medical schools teach them and the leading doctors tell them. Over the past 20 years the drug companies, with their enormous wealth, have taken medicine over and now control its research, what is taught and the information released to the public.
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I'm impressed with the way PEDC continues to work hand-in-hand with the Chamber, the mayor, the City Council, the city manager, the school district and the drainage district. It's helped bring the city where it is today.
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We shouldn't carpet bomb Afghanistan. If we wanted to hinder them we could take out strategic sites like weapons manufacturing and bridges.
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Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.
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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.
