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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"

Take time to reflect on all the things you have, not as a result of your
merit or hard work or because God or chance or the efforts of other people
have given them to you.

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not
take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
        -- Booth Tarkington

Talent does what it can.
Genius does what it must.
You do what you get paid to do.

Telephone books are like dictionaries -- if you know the answer before
you look it up, you can eventually reaffirm what you thought you knew
but weren't sure.  But if you're searching for something you don't
already know, your fingers could walk themselves to death.
        -- Erma Bombeck

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work,
work till we die.
        -- C.S. Lewis

That's life.
    What's life?
A magazine.
    How much does it cost?
Two-fifty.
    I only have a dollar.
That's life.

The [Ford Foundation] is a large body of money completely surrounded by
people who want some.
        -- Dwight MacDonald

The `loner' may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues,
for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be
simply making a limiting statement about himself.
        -- Sidney Harris

The absent ones are always at fault.