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Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.
Source: 1910 Speech, quoted in Alan L. Mackay The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977) -
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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The dearth of business activity on the traditional day of rest makes Sunday an ideal time to declare insolvency. Bankruptcy petitions are time-stamped to the minute, instantly dividing a failed company's dealings into pre-bankruptcy transactions and post-bankruptcy transactions.
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The end of times has always been a fascination. But post 9/11, pretty much everybody will admit to having it on their minds more frequently than when they were a kid.
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The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.
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The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
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The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.
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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
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The post-war publish or perish tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
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The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window.
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There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
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To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
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To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
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To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a ''home'' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.
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Usually, the first three months post acquisition are up and down. The acquirer and the acquiree are trying to figure out how to interact. The founders of the acquiree are usually tired from the deal process and adjusting to their new reality.
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