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May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.
PAUL DICKSON All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.
PAUL DICKSON Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And...
PAUL DICKSON Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.
PAUL DICKSON Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second entry.
PAUL DICKSON Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended it to happen.
PAUL DICKSON Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the ...
PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.
PAUL DICKSON A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
PAUL DICKSON Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
PAUL DICKSON About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
PAUL DICKSON Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the ...
PAUL DICKSON Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of ...
PAUL DICKSON A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becom...
PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be c...
PAUL DICKSON Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time...
PAUL DICKSON Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.
PAUL DICKSON Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.
PAUL DICKSON A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
PAUL DICKSON Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
PAUL DICKSON Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like ...
PAUL DICKSON A free agent is anything but.
PAUL DICKSON Baseball plays out like an opera,
PAUL DICKSON The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming tra...
PAUL DICKSON A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to l...
PAUL DICKSON Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
LILLIAN DICKSON Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the thin...
ROSALEEN DICKSON Come on people! Somebody disagree with me! How can we learn anything if no one will disagree?" Rabbi...
ATHOL DICKSON Perception is gradually turning around, the U.S. is rethinking its attitude towards international st...
MICHAEL DICKSON You've accelerated your liability,
JOEL DICKSON It looks as though Fogelman may have dodged a serious bullet,
RICK DICKSON You have rebuked our attempts to design a road that is safer for children and will calm traffic in f...
CHUCK DICKSON My dad's more of a pusher. (Mark) is more individual.
ETHAN DICKSON This was definitely a heartbreaking game. But we can't stay down, sob and cry over this.
JESSICA DICKSON Portfolio performance for a calendar year can often be improved by simply selling the worst performe...
CHIP DICKSON The bottom itself wasn't anything exciting. But when it started going higher, it blasted off.
RICHARD DICKSON People own property out there and you gotta let them develop it, ... You can't go around and buy up ...
BILL DICKSON Some of the people we're going to help out are some of the ones who came over and helped us out afte...
BILL DICKSON I think it's pretty terrible. I don't understand why there's any reason to cut the team.
CHRIS DICKSON We're very happy. He's like a big, uncut diamond. You haven't even seen him yet.
STEVE DICKSON Part of why Kleenex and all the leading brands use virgin fibers is because of the strength and soft...
DAVE DICKSON It's up to you to decide now, and what you choose to do about it will affect the rest of your life, ...
ROSALEEN DICKSON In the near-term, the market would prefer a Bush victory because he is familiar and represents lower...
CHIP DICKSON You will one day be so proud of all your children, don't impede their progress now by pretending tha...
ROSALEEN DICKSON It was hard to comprehend. We weren't expecting make it to the final. After it was over, we were sho...
ETHAN DICKSON Life is like a coin, you may spend it any way you wish, but you can only spend it once.
LILLIAN DICKSON Barbie has a special relationship with women. It takes them back to being a little girl and fantasiz...
RICHARD DICKSON The Nasdaq taking out its July lows says to me, 'Guys, we still have a bear market on our hands,'
RICHARD DICKSON Everybody who wants to sell will have sold. Supply will be exhausted.
RICHARD DICKSON Momentum investing is a very fast way to lose money in a bear market.
RICHARD DICKSON We could see an important bottom in October,
RICHARD DICKSON The market had every opportunity to sell off. The fact that it's not going down is a good sign. I've...
RICHARD DICKSON This has been the strongest rally we've had since the bear market started. There continues to be goo...
RICHARD DICKSON The things we look at most closely are buying power and selling pressure. There's been no change in ...
RICHARD DICKSON For the near term, at least, the path of least resistance appears to be down.
RICHARD DICKSON The options are out there for consumers. They have voiced their preferences through their purchases.
DAVE DICKSON North Americans do have a higher desire for very soft tissues.
DAVE DICKSON As we understand consumers, they want tissue products that are soft, that are strong, and you cannot...
DAVE DICKSON We don't delegate what each member does, they must reach out in their own ways.
TRACI DICKSON I'd like to have a bigger boat, ... But I think I would feel guilty about burning all that gas.
JIM DICKSON Few people thought that he would be that explicit. We're getting closer to the end of the Fed intere...
FREDERIC DICKSON We've seen political crises before rise and then cool off. The hope is that we would also see some c...
FREDERIC DICKSON We're coming to the end of the Fed interest-rate tightening cycle. That usually isn't a bad time to ...
FREDERIC DICKSON The biggest reactor to the productivity numbers will be the Fed. Productivity has been the safety va...
FREDERIC DICKSON My sense right now is that we're in a trading range market. I would be looking for a pullback. I don...
FREDERIC DICKSON My sense right now is that we're in a trading range market. I would be looking for a pullback.
FREDERIC DICKSON The first quarter economy rebounded strongly, but it wasn't too strong in this case.
FRED DICKSON Investors remain very cautious. They're holding back, waiting for the Fed. We still have buyers in t...
FRED DICKSON Good news on retailers should be a sigh of relief.
FRED DICKSON His testimony not only played well to Congress but to Wall Street. So we should continue to get a li...
FRED DICKSON Right now, the market is going through rapid rotation and very little stability in the process of tr...
FRED DICKSON I think it's going to be the earnings, I see that as probably on everybody's minds this morning. I'm...
FRED DICKSON Hedge-fund managers are under the gun for performance, and typically their tolerance for small [earn...
FRED DICKSON I run the same speed, even though my legs are half his size.
ETHAN DICKSON It was hard, tiring. It was hot. We were getting to our limits out there.
ETHAN DICKSON We're trying to take state as a team.
ETHAN DICKSON When she opened it, she found these curious holes and spaces inside the case.
LAURA DICKSON I'm very happy with the girls' performances. I knew that we would be competitive.
KAREN DICKSON Three of my girls are going to the state science fair and wouldn't have been here. So we would have ...
KAREN DICKSON This is big. It's awesome. This one feels good because they had to work for it.
KAREN DICKSON We have been able to successfully compete with Wal-Mart in our other markets by providing high quali...
KATHY DICKSON Folks were doing the very best they knew to do. It was human error.
KATHY DICKSON I am very excited. The Bismarck-Mandan area is a great community with a lot of growth and a good eco...
KATHY DICKSON We would like to keep the staff. There's a lot of talent in all of the departments, and many long-te...
KATHY DICKSON Well, yeah we do. We've got friends all over the United States.
JUDY DICKSON We've done this for years. You just get into doing something like that and you don't give it a thoug...
JUDY DICKSON We (send) them all over the United States.
JUDY DICKSON Distributions are no reason to panic, ... What you're doing if you sell is realizing all of your gai...
JOEL DICKSON You have to take each situation individually, ... Don't make a knee-jerk reaction.
JOEL DICKSON Say we have to sell shares of Cisco to match its standing in a particular index. We sell the shares ...
JOEL DICKSON The average mutual fund has lost about 2.5 percent a year to taxes on dividends and capital gains. M...
JOEL DICKSON You have some flexibility,
JOEL DICKSON These costs do add up over time.
JOEL DICKSON This is a natural evolution of what we have long talked about at Vanguard -- that costs, broadly def...
JOEL DICKSON Taxes are the single largest cost for shareholders.
JOEL DICKSON I wouldn't go out and automatically seek out dividend-paying stocks. They are now taxed at the same ...
JOEL DICKSON They are not tennis players. They came from soccer. Those (are) No. 3, 4 and 5 spots, so I really do...
JOE DICKSON Strange was that guy who's had a pro with him since he was 9 years old. But it's only that one spot ...
JOE DICKSON But I have a very solid senior squad.
JOE DICKSON The bulk of our applications come in from November to the end of January, but there are some that wi...
MICHAEL DICKSON Anyone can ride with us, you don't have to be a member. You don't have to ride a motorcycle; you can...
TRACI DICKSON Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
R A DICKSON X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
R A DICKSON Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
GORDON R. DICKSON I am looked upon with suspicion. I am on the "other side."
HARRY ELLIS DICKSON My dearest colleagues seem to become metamorphosed into snarling beasts if I as much as glance at th...
HARRY ELLIS DICKSON Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
R A DICKSON Alan Campbell opened one eye.

From somewhere in remote distances, muffled beyond sight or...
JOHN DICKSON CARR They are fools that think that wealth or women or strong drink or even drugs can buy the most in eff...
GORDON R. DICKSON My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder...
PAUL DANO We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they ...
PAUL TILLICH Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
PAUL BRYANT Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to peop...
PAUL DIRAC I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They ...
PAUL DIRAC It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and...
PAUL DIRAC I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an econo...
PAUL DIRAC In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
PAUL DIRAC Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.
PAUL DIRAC Civilisation was built around wheat, around people settling down and not being nomadic. Baking is on...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD As an opinion manager, a campaign consultant, fixing personality negatives is a lot easier than fixi...
PAUL MANAFORT What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.
PAUL SAMUELSON No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York ...
CHRIS PAUL The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and...
JEAN PAUL If my son is happy, then I am happy.
CHRIS PAUL A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
PAUL VALERY Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending...
RAND PAUL I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really belie...
RAND PAUL Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
RAND PAUL People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twist...
RAND PAUL I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health i...
RAND PAUL Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don...
RAND PAUL You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
RAND PAUL As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.
RAND PAUL Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often ...
RAND PAUL How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Con...
RAND PAUL We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-ric...
RAND PAUL The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to b...
RAND PAUL The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese American...
RAND PAUL The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administer...
RAND PAUL If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
RAND PAUL I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism...
RAND PAUL Naples is curiously chaotic and, if I'm honest, a bit dilapidated. It certainly has a 'lived...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-bui...
RON PAUL There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all t...
RON PAUL You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are a...
RON PAUL The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the worl...
RON PAUL Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.
RON PAUL All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individ...
RON PAUL When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three cho...
RON PAUL Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
RON PAUL You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
RON PAUL Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we do...
RON PAUL What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a ...
RON PAUL Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up t...
RON PAUL 1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
RON PAUL If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not s...
RON PAUL When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
RON PAUL The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our lib...
RON PAUL There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator...
RON PAUL Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.
RON PAUL Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it'...
PAUL RYAN For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.
PAUL GRAHAM I only think about the pitch. I want to do great. I want to be one of the best. I want to win titles...
PAUL POGBA Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two to...
PAUL CEZANNE A winner never whines.
PAUL BROWN We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the l...
PAUL WATSON Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work ...
PAUL FEIG If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pu...
PAUL KEATING Baking is therapy.
PAUL HOLLYWOOD Baking can be done with a few simple ingredients, so it's about simplicity and nostalgia - peopl...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD When it comes to wildfires, 2013 wasn't a good year, which is why I'm especially proud that ...
PAUL GOSAR It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds th...
RAND PAUL Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.
PAUL WATSON Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real li...
PAUL RUDD It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the ...
PAUL STRAND I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society ...
RON PAUL The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner struc...
PAUL VALERY There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul t...
JEAN PAUL If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
PAUL MCCARTNEY Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept b...
PAUL GRAHAM Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.
PAUL THEROUX When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make ...
PAUL THEROUX It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
PAUL THEROUX Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with su...
PAUL THEROUX Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazi...
PAUL THEROUX When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and ...
PAUL THEROUX An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up a...
PAUL THEROUX Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my pati...
PAUL THEROUX Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
PAUL THEROUX A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I...
PAUL THEROUX Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.
PAUL THEROUX Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mut...
PAUL THEROUX I am happy being what I am.
PAUL THEROUX I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and...
PAUL THEROUX The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on th...
PAUL KURTZ As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often ...
PAUL JOHNSON The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea.
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