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"Nicky I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do. For instance tomorrow morning ill get up nice and early, take a walk down over to the bank and... walk in and see and uh... if you don't have my money for me, I'll... crack your f***in' head wide-open in front of everybody in the bank. And just about the time I'm comin' out of jail, hopefully, you'll be coming out of your coma. And guess what I'll split your f***in' head open again. 'Cause I'm f***in' stupid. I don't give a f*** about jail. That's my business. That's what I do." »Casino
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"Inflation is a force of pressure. If the socioeconomic system of a country is open and democratic, the pressure will dissipate via elections and peaceful change of government. On the other hand, if the system is closed, it might be able to contain the pressure for a while, but the pressure will continue to build up and at a certain point it will exceed the strength of the system causing it to crack. Rulers who learn from history and create a socioeconomic system that is open will achieve stability and continuity. Those who fight against these socioeconomic forces may win some battles in the short term, but they will lose the war." »Med Jones
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"There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool." »L. M. Boyd
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"One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind." »Malayan Proverb
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"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." »John Gall
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"To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system thereby the oppressed become the oppressor." »Unknown
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"A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term." »Robert Reich
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"The socioeconomic well-being theory explains that when the members of a sociopolitical system share the same economic interests and the existing system produces enough economic opportunities to meet the needs of the members, they are likely to tolerate existing differences and work together towards shared benefits. On the other hand, when the system fails to produce enough economic opportunities over a long period of time, the members of the system are likely to compete more aggressively for existing resources, causing divisions among the members to grow stronger. The degree of social cohesiveness will diminish and divisions could take different forms such as ethnic, religious and geographic conflicts and at times class warfare or civil wars. If not managed properly, such sociopolitical systems can become dysfunctional. If the dysfunction is left untreated, at a certain point it will take more energy to fix the system than to let it collapse.
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"What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis." »W. Edwards Deming
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"It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment." »W. Edwards Deming
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"The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached." »William Safire
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"The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment." »Dave Barry
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"You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accomodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others, will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself-educating your own judgement. Those that stay must remember, always and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this society." »Doris Lessing
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"The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." »Ronald Reagan
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"Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - all communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile." »Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame
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"As long as humanity has been human, it has looked toward the heavens and dreamed that some day, some way, there would be giant federal contracts involved." »Dave Barry
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"Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society." »Edward C. Banfield
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"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works." »John Gaule
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"Neither a borrower nor a lender be For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." »William Shakespeare
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"Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man." »William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3
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"Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home." »David Frost
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"The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires." »Dorothy Parker
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"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant --- and let the air out of their tires." »Dorothy Parker
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"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires." »Dorothy Parker
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"In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that men know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is look at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home." »Dave Barry
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"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"It is not a fish until it is on the bank." »Irish Proverb
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"American leaders created a system that allowed a free distribution of wealth and power. People leave their economic class and become richer regardless of their ethnic or national background. Therefore, despite having more diverse people in our society than any other nation, we have more stable national politics. If our elites try to limit the openness of the socioeconomic system, the system will be corrected in any number of forms including civic unrest. When Bush's administration invaded Iraq and bailed out Wall Street, the people brought in Obama. When Obama bailed out Wall Street again and considered raising the tax on the people, the system brought the Tea Party into power and the ruling party lost control of the Congress. People expressed their anger via peaceful elections." »Med Jones
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"When the reviews are bad, I tell myself that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank." »Liberace
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"It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night." »Willie Sutton
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