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A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster and a bad manager worse faster.


Edward Esber

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EDWARD DOWDEN The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.
EDWARD SIMMONS The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
EDWARD GIBBON If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.
EDWARD GARDNER All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
EDWARD GIBBON None think the great unhappy, but the great.
EDWARD YOUNG It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.
EDWARD GARDNER