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eeff674	Only with quantitative observations can one arrive at quantitative relationships, which are the heart of physics.			Richard P. Feynman
9b6cf6e	Take my assets -- but leave me my organization and in five years I'll have it all back.			Alfred P. Sloan
7c84435	Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.			Alfred P. Sloan
4962be3	It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.			Alfred P. Sloan
f8cf05d	His room was still and very quiet, insulated by sound building and oak boards from the jabber of the dissenting voices below. He unlatched the window in the seaward wall and forced it open with both hands against the blast of the gale. the wind rushed into the room swirling the bed cover into folds, sweeping the papers from his desk and rustling the pages of his bedside Jane Austen like a giant hand. It took his breath away so that he leane..			P. D. James
70025ca	People don't like seeing being afraid to express an opinion and seeing their neighbors dragged away to prison camps. You'd think that would be obvious enough, wouldn't you? But governments--here, anyway--have always seemed unable grasp it. That's what happens when you can't see further than short-term expediency.			James P. Hogan
5898efa	The law of governance, risk-management, and compliance is the body of rules, regulations, and best practices that, individually and collectively, are intended to ensure that organizations are managed effectively and in such a way as to enhance social welfare.			Geoffrey P. Miller
89446f6	Give me an upright heart which no unworthy purpose may tempt aside. Bestow upon me also, O Lord my God, understanding to know Thee, diligence to seek Thee, wisdom to find Thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace Thee; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. --THOMAS AQUINAS (1225-1274)			David P. Gushee
33a8123	O Lord, give us grace not only to be hearers of the word, but also doers of the same; not only to love, but to live Thy gospel; not only to profess, but also to practice Thy blessed commandments, to the honor of Thy holy name. Amen. --THOMAS BECON (c. 1512-1567)			David P. Gushee
4fb8eb4	Realizing he wouldn't get more soldiers, Schoomaker told his subordinates to squeeze more out of what they had. Each of ten regular Army divisions raised a fourth maneuver brigade, adding ten more deployable BCTs to the pool. Divisions shut down long-established but now extraneous headquarters: the division engineer brigade, the division artillery, the division support command, the MI battalion, and the signal battalion. All of their subord..			Daniel P. Bolger
2e0f77a	Examples of aggregated simple appearances occurring during concentration include: seeds (thig le), subtle attributes (mtshan ma phra mo), and light rays (od zer gyi yan lag; JP, f. 36b). These are all experienced as a consequence of visualization. Because they appear during meditation, they are classified as perceptual events, and are therefore considered to be supports to concentration training.366 Seeds (thig le) are the most common type ..			Daniel P. Brown
e62d18e	We'll fling the door open and make a rush," said Bill. "Supposing they shoot, old scout?"			P G Wodehouse
5a1179c	It's the burglars!" quavered Mrs. Hignett. In the stress of recent events she had completely forgotten the existence of those enemies of society. "They were dancing in the hall when I arrived, and now they're playing the orchestrion!"			P G Wodehouse
631c4a4	But what is the love life of newts, if you boil it right down? Didn't you tell me once that they just waggled their tails at one another in the mating season?'			P. G. Wodehouse
8b855bf	Oh, is that my report, father?' said Mike, with a sort of sickly interest, much as a dog about to be washed might evince in his tub.'		school-story ya	P. G. Wodehouse
1dff9f7	Roderick Spode is the founder of the Saviours of Britain, a fascist organisation better know as the 'Black Shorts'... When you say 'shorts' mean 'shirts', of course. No. By the time Spode formed his association, there were no shirts left. He and his adherents wear black shorts. Footer bags, you mean?			P G Wodehouse
7035ba0	'It seems to me, Jeeves, that the ceremony may be one fraught with considerable interest.' 'Yes, sir.' 'What, in your opinion, will the harvest be?' 'One finds it difficult to hazard a conjecture, sir.' 'You mean imagination boggles?' 'Yes, sir.' I inspected my imagination. He was right. It boggled			P. G. Wodehouse
52191ab	I'm not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare - or, if not, it's some equally brainy lad - who says that it's always just when a chappie is feeling particularly top-hole, and more than usually braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping.		chappie fate lead-piping shakespeare top-hole	P. G. Wodehouse
a419fa9	My God, man!" I gargled. "The cravat! The gent's neckwear! Why? For what reason?"		fashion neckwear ties	P. G. Wodehouse
1068052	If there were more men like you, Mr. Wooster, London would be a better place." This was dead opposite to my Aunt Agatha's philosophy of life, she always having rather given me to understand that it is the presence in it of chappies like me that makes London more or less of a plague spot; but I let it go."		family london philosophy-of-life	P. G. Wodehouse
ab78ec9	In 1855 in Manchester County, Virginia, there were thirty-four free black families, with a mother and father and one child or more, and eight of those free families owned slaves, and all eight knew each other's business.			Edward P. Jones
92ce041	Calvin had said, his hands hard at his sides.			Edward P. Jones
2661f97	Mary O'Donnell had been nursing that baby, and the day after Agnes was committed to the sea, her milk stopped flowing. She thought it only a natural result of grieving for Agnes. She would go on to have three more children with her second husband, the seller of Augustus Townsend's walking sticks, but with each child the milk did not return. "Where is my milk?" Mary asked God with each of the three children. "Where is my milk?" God did not g..			Edward P. Jones
34c554d	But the law expects you to know what is master and what is slave . . . if you roll around and be a playmate to your property, and your property turns around and bites you, the law will come to you still, but it will not come with the full heart and all the deliberate speed you will need. You will have failed in your part of the bargain. You will have pointed to the line that separates you from your property and told your property that the l..			Edward P. Jones. Jones
b8e6c9f	But my mother wanted her children to be educated by nuns and priests all dressed in black, the way it had been done down through the generations with her people. Taught by people who had a firm grasp of how big and awful the world could be.		life nuns parochial-schools priests religion religious-education schools	Edward P. Jones
730bcf0	What we need is a new God. Somebody who knows what the fuck he's doing.		god higher-power religion	Edward P. Jones
f02b246	We leave, we run away and don't realize how much we'll need to go back home one day. The South is like that. It's the worst mama in the world and it's the best mama in the world.		roots south	Edward P. Jones
454fc1d	As for the absence of recovery, as for death, there are machines that are not meant for the road.		dying illness weakness	Edward P. Jones
ca24abf	They treat colored people like kings and queens in Washington, cause thas where the president lives. Would they treat colored people anything but good in a city where the president hangs his hat and pets his dog and snores besides Mrs. President every night? Now would they?		blacks presidents washington-dc	Edward P. Jones
2106222	Render your body to them" his father had taught, "but know your soul belongs to God."			Edward P. Jones
379590c	Celeste was practically talking to herself now because Stamford and the baby were in a world of their own. The baby's hands had reached the man's face and he was tapping every feature of it, doing everything that was necessary for the man to say the words the baby had come to expect in their brief history together. Stamford's mouth opened more and more. 'You here early this mornin,' Stamford Crow Blueberry would say to Ellwood Freemen that ..			Edward P. Jones
b0fa4ad	In the spring of 1844, a good many white people in Manchester County remained uneasy about news from other places about slave "restlessness" that had gone on a few years before. In the North, people called it slave uprisings, but in much of Virginia the word uprisings had an abolitionist undertone and was felt to be too strong for what many slaveowners preferred to characterize as "a family squabble," instigated by unknowns not part of the ..			Edward P. Jones
35a98b6	Moses had thought that it was already a strange world that made him a slave to a white man, but God had indeed set it twirling and twisting every which way when he put black people to owning their own kind. Was God even up there attending to business anymore?			Edward P. Jones
9df2f88	Henry had been a good master, his widow decided, as good as they come. Yes, he sometimes had to ration the food he gave them. But that was not his fault--had God sent down more food, Henry would certainly have given it to them. Henry was only the middleman in that particular transaction. Yes, he had to have some slaves beaten, but those were the ones who would not do what was right and proper. Spare the rod . . . , the Bible warned. Her hus..			Edward P. Jones
b2a5e9a	The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.			Edward P. Jones
3df9985	By cooperating, Verizon Wireless is implicitly promising that the FiOS service will spread no farther; Comcast and Time Warner, for their part, are implicitly promising that they will not go into the wireless business.			Susan P. Crawford
c54cf21	Democrats comprised 37% of voting electorate in 200 compared with 46% in 1960. If the electorate of 2000 had the same balance of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents as the electorate of 1960, Gore would have won an additional 3% of the vote.		democrats elections republicnas	Donald P. Green
3e5bd01	The success of the scaling-up process depends upon the fact that the conceptual integrity of each piece has been radically improved--that the number of minds determining the design has been divided by seven. So it is possible to put 200 people on a problem and face the problem of coordinating only 20 minds, those of the surgeons. For that coordination problem, however, separate techniques must be used, and these are discussed in succeeding ..			Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
5ca23ca	I will contend that conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design. It is better to have a system omit certain anomalous features and improvements, but to reflect one set of design ideas, than to have one that contains many good but independent and uncoordinated ideas.			Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
d49fae3	The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back.			Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
6f3cb6a	Because ease of use is the purpose, this ratio of function to conceptual complexity is the ultimate test of system design. Neither function alone nor simplicity alone defines a good design. This point is widely misunderstood. Operating System/360 is hailed by its builders as the finest ever built, because it indisputably has the most function. Function, and not simplicity, has always been the measure of excellence for its designers. On the ..			Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
09ddeb5	By the architecture of a system, I mean the complete and detailed specification of the user interface. For a computer this is the programming manual. For a compiler it is the language manual. For a control program it is the manuals for the language or languages used to invoke its functions. For the entire system it is the union of the manuals the user must consult to do his entire job. The architect of a system, like the architect of a buil..			Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
821e02c	Indeed, the cost-performance ratio of the product will depend most heavily on the implementer, just as ease of use depends most heavily on the architect.			Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
511efd0	Conceptual integrity does require that a system reflect a single philosophy and that the specification as seen by the user flow from a few minds. Because of the real division of labor into architecture, implementation, and realization, however, this does not imply that a system so designed will take longer to build. Experience shows the opposite, that the integral system goes together faster and takes less time to test. In effect, a widespr..			Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

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