The Pimps Have Taken Over the World

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All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments or probabilities, and not on certainties. – Charles W. Eliot



If you destroy a free market you create a black market. If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. – Sir Winston Churchill



Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don’t do anything, they don’t make anything – they just stand there and take their cut. – Jean Giraudoux



If profits are evil, loses must be ten time worse. – Bertram Troy



If one has not made a reasonable profit, one has made a mistake. – Li Xiannian



It is well know what a middle-man is: he is the man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other. – Benjamin Disraeli

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All Powerful for Impotence

Image via WikipediaNothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile. – Bertrand Russell




There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. – William James



They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful for impotence. – Sir Winston Churchill



The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. – Frederic Amiel



Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you’re wallowing in indecision, you certainly can’t act – and action is the basis of success. – Marie Beynon Ray



One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain-climbing over molehills. – Earl Wilson



It is always our inabilities that vex. – Joseph Joubert

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Virgin Territory for Whorehouses

Image via WikipediaThe opportunity that God sends does not wake up him who is asleep. – Sengalese Proverb




There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. - Douglas MacArthur



This is virgin territory for whorehouses. – Al Capone



Everything comes to the man who does not need it. – French Proverb



Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at our door. – Sebastian Roch Nicolas



An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity. – Sir Winston Churchill



One thing life taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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Do I Cross this Bridge or Burn It?

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I am always ready to learn but I do not always like being taught. – Winston Churchill




The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. – David Russell



Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. – Lord Chesterfield



The three foundations of learning: seeing much, suffering much, and studying much. – Catherall



The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. - Wanda Landowska



Learning is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know. – Ralph Waldo Emerson



One of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get. – (education) – William L. Bryan

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Science Never Promised Peace or Happiness

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Science has nothing to be ashamed of, even in the ruins of Nagasaki. – Jacob Bronnowski




Science has promised us truth – It has never promise us either peace or happiness. – Gustave le Bon



One humiliating thing about science is that it is gradually filling our homes with appliances smarter than we are. – Oskaloosa Herald



Matter – a convenient formula for describing what happens where it isn’t. – Bertrand Russell



Science can tell us means to an end, but not about what the ends should be. – Leonard Hodgson



Scientists should be on tap but not on top. – Sir Winston Churchill



When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. – Arthur C. Clarke

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The Danger of Too Many Precautions

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A Ship is safe in port, but that’s not what ships are built for. – Grace Murray Hopper

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. – Thomas Fuller

Better hazard once than always be in fear. – Thomas Fuller

If you play it safe in life, you’ve decided that you don’t want to grow anymore. – Shirley Hufstedler

The chief danger in life is that you may make too many precautions. – Alfred Adler

Nothing is so exhilarating as to be shot at without results. – Winston S. Churchill

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able Man who is willing to risk his fortune. – J. Paul Getty

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No Good in Bed but Fine up Against a Wall

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Today's quotes are from a friend - Durry Garbutt

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you
should have remained a virgin.'
- Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter)

I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not
pleased to read the description in the catalogue: - 'No good in a bed,
but fine against a wall.'
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I
have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that
statement..
- Mark Twain

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good
ending; and to have the two as close together as possible
- George Burns

Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.
- Victor Borge

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you
get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
- Groucho Marx

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she
stops to breathe.
- Jimmy Durante

I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food
groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
- Alex Levine

My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.
- Rodney Dangerfield

Money can't buy you happiness ... But it does bring you a more pleasant
form of misery.
- Spike Milligan

Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was SHUT UP .
- Joe Namath

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for
my nap.
- Bob Hope

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it..
- W. C. Fields

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way
through Congress.
- Will Rogers

Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will
avoid you.
- Winston Churchill

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty ... But everything else starts
to wear out, fall out, or spread out..
- Phyllis Diller

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go
anywhere.
- Billy Crystal

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Barbra Streisand's Holy Grail of Success

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Gross National Product is our holy grail. – Stwart Udall

The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success. – Irving Berlin

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each. – Barbra Streisand

Success is never final. – Winston Churchill

All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. – Mark Twain

Success is that old ABC – Ability, Breaks, and Courage. – Charles Luckman

Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed – Montesquieu

Don’t Set a (Goldman Sachs) Fox to Watching Your Chickens

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It is a fine thing to be honest but it is also very important to be right. – Winston Churchill

No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future. – Ian E. Wilson

If two friends ask you to be judge in a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept, because you will gain one friend. – Saint Augustine

You don’t set a fox to watching the chickens just because he has a lot of experience in the hen house. – Harry S. Truman

It is only in our decisions that we are important. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear “on the other hand... – Herbert Hoover

Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you. – Calvin Coolidge

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When it’s Not so Good, It’s still Good

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I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation. – George Bernard Shaw

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. – Winston Churchill

Business is like sex. When it’s good, it’s very, very good; when it’s not so good, it’s still good. – George Katona

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. – Anonymous

Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences. – Jaques Maritain

One Who Feeds a Crocodile Hoping it will Eat Him Last

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Have you considered that if you “don’t make waves” nobody including yourself will know that you are alive. – Theodore Issac Rubin

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last. – Winston Churchill

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented. – Andre Gide

People only see what they are prepared to see. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

What one see depends upon where one sits. – James R Schlesinger