Quotations

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.
John Egan

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Jim Rohn

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Patience is something you admire greatly in the driver behind you, but not in the driver ahead of you.
-Howard Bean

“Value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear.”

- Pat Summit

Man will believe in anything, as long as it’s not in the Bible.
-Napoleon

Hey Mike,.. regarding your signature line (mice/cheese) I was listening the radio about behavioral research using mice in a maze… the researcher (also a comedian) said his next study is testing how his experienced mice respond to a maze made completely out of cheese. UU

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“Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups… So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.”
― Philip K. Dick

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

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“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

- James Baldwin

“There’s no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.”
- Robin Williams

This is actually a very ironic quote, if it actually did come from Robin Williams.

Wow, Dan! You are right!

That shines a sort of black light on that quote.

Doesn’t this depend on how you view suicide? “I give up” vs “I’ve done my best and now I’m done”

How so? (Do not answer this challenge except by private message.) He did not die by a firearm but by hanging, if you’re sadly punning on the word, “Shot.” He was suffering from a long term and misdiagnosed illness when he took his life. Your comment seems inconsiderate at best, and offensive at worst. He had worthy things to say when he lived, and his death should not detract from the original intent in his words.
Irony: the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect; a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.
I wholeheartedly do not agree.

This is a very fine example of..
Let us not discuss the quotes, as they can speak for themselves. “No need for banter.” from the OP. You are reminded.

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“Everything has to be earned, through work, persistence, and honesty.”

- Princess Grace Kelly

“Everything has to should be earned, through work, persistence, and honesty.”

FIFY because we all know that lots of people get lots of things through methods other than those presented in that statement :smiley:

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