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| #2976 |   | The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or  give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
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| #2977 |   | An optimist believes we live in the best world possible;  a pessimist fears this is true.
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| #2978 |   | "If John Madden steps outside on February 2, looks down, and doesn't see his  feet, we'll have 6 more weeks of Pro football." -- Chuck Newcombe
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| #2979 |   | Dead?	No excuse for laying off work.
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| #2980 |   | Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself.
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| #2981 |   | "When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic." -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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| #2982 |   | "Nature is very un-American.  Nature never hurries." -- William George Jordan
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| #2983 |   | "We learn from history that we learn nothing from history." -- George Bernard Shaw
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| #2984 |   | "Flattery is all right -- if you don't inhale." -- Adlai Stevenson
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| #2985 |   | "Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." -- Bernard Berenson
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