| "Most tax revisions didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers." »Ronald Reagan |
| "A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world." »John Locke |
| "I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer." »Leonard Bernstein |
| "You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body." »Juvenal |
| "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." »John Gall |
| "To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system thereby the oppressed become the oppressor." »Unknown |
| "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 |
| "The sound of fresh rain run-off splashing from the roof reminded me of the sound of urine splashing into a filthy Texaco latrine." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends." »Alexander Pope |
| "fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing." »Real Live Preacher |
| "The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically." »Barbra Streisand |
| "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 |
| "high living and high thinking are poles apart." »B. J. Gupta |
| "The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world." »David Dean Rusk |
| "Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals." »Vaclav Havel |
| "Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." »Helen Keller |
| "high thoughts must have high language." »Aristophanes |
| "Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings." »Mitchell Burgess |
| "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness." »George Santayana |
| "high office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make." »Robert Francis Kennedy |
| "To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth." »William Ellery Channing |
| "What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living." »Doug Larson |
| "Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself." »Shannon Miller |
| "What is the sound of one hand clapping" »Confucius |
| "The sound of life has divine silence." »Kedar Joshi |
| "I was alarmed at my doctor's report He said I was sound as a dollar." »Ronald Reagan |
| "Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence." »Margaret Halsey |
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