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Take the folks at Coca-Cola. For many years, they were content to sit
back and make the same old carbonated beverage. It was a good
beverage, no question about it; generations of people had grown up
drinking it and doing the experiment in sixth grade where you put a
nail into a glass of Coke and after a couple of days the nail dissolves
and the teacher says: "Imagine what it does to your TEETH!" So
Coca-Cola was solidly entrenched in the market, and the management saw
no need to improve ...
-- Dave Barry, "In Search of Excellence"
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Freebsd Fortunes: 2667 of 3566 |
Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to
your execution is not generally understood by less advanced life forms,
and they'll call you crazy.
-- "Messiah's Handbook: Reminders for the Advanced Soul"
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Freebsd Fortunes: 2668 of 3566 |
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
-- Euripides
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Freebsd Fortunes: 2669 of 3566 |
Talkers are no good doers.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
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Freebsd Fortunes: 2670 of 3566 |
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Freebsd Fortunes: 2671 of 3566 |
TAURUS (Apr 20 - May 20)
You are practical and persistent. You have a dogged
determination and work like hell. Most people think you are
stubborn and bull headed. You are a Communist.
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Freebsd Fortunes: 2672 of 3566 |
Tax reform means "Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that fellow behind
the tree."
-- Russell Long
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Freebsd Fortunes: 2673 of 3566 |
Taxes are going up so fast, the government is likely to price itself
out of the market.
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Taxes, n.:
Of life's two certainties, the only one for which you can get
an extension.
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Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he
grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.
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