Year: 2006
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Thinkers Anonymous
It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then – just to loosen up. Inevitably, though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more than just a social thinker. I began to think alone – “to relax,” I told myself – but I knew it wasn’t true. Thinking…
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Awakening
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.Dennis Gabor
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I voted today… did you?
I don’t know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.Anonymous Chinese student, during protests in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989
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Expectations
Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is, is the only way of being happy.Jennie Jerome Churchill
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The customer comes second
Finally someone in the hostpitality business who gets it. I bet he doesn’t expect his employees to work seventy to eighty hours a week.Meyer’s business model intentionally inverst classic capitalist priorities. He believes that you must first meet the needs of the employees, then guests, followed by the community, suppliers and finally investors, in that…
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How the Bush Administration Changes a Light Bulb
Q: How many members of the Bush administration does it take to change a light bulb?A: 10One to deny that a light bulb needs to be changedOne to attack the patriotism of anyone who says the light bulb needs to be changedOne to blame Clinton for burning out the light bulbOne to arrange the invasion…