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Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.


Nigel Rees

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Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE In the end, crime doesn't pay.
LANE GARRISON I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film)
DEYTH BANGER Better to play dumb than to go as smartass… after all smartasses get what they deserve in the end....
DEYTH BANGER In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work.
LINDA FIORENTINO Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Injustice in the end produces independence.
VOLTAIRE It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
BONO Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
SWAMI SIVANANDA The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
URSULA K. LE GUIN But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
BARRY GIBB In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.
JOHN C. MAXWELL It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF In the end, Arik believes in security above all and is a salient pragmatist, a disciple of Ben-Gurio...
REUVEN RIVLIN In the end, rational policy is always good.
PAUL KEATING My gymnasts are always the best-prepared in the world. And they win. In the end, that's what mat...
BELA KAROLYI In the end, I'm an actor. I'm paid for what I bring to the screen.
ERIC BRAEDEN I'm thankful because all the hard work and sacrifices were worth it in the end.
WIZKID In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid ...
THEODOR ADORNO In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.
T. R. KNIGHT In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
HEINRICH HEINE In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.
ABBEY LEE KERSHAW But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.
LEO ORNSTEIN Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
ELLEN GLASGOW In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.
CAITLIN MORAN There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
ELLIS PETERS Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
HELEN HAYES Tomas turned the key and switched on the ceiling light. Teraza saw two beds pushed together, one of ...
MILAN KUNDERA She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of ...
MARIO PUZO Love: the impossible combination of being IN the deep end and being OFF the deep end.
JENNIFER HARRISON I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one w...
USHER Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
DAMIAN LEWIS In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
AMBER FREY We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselve...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a...
BARACK OBAMA In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.
LINDSEY VONN This digital world is what you make of it in the end.
CIARA America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.
HUGH EVANS Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
MARK STRAND In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.
MARILYN MANSON In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.
GREGORY BENFORD In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.
ERIC LIU I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.
CECELIA AHERN I'm not here to battle anybody. In the end it's just an instrument. That shouldn't be a ...
ERIC SAN People will always show their true selves in the end.
LEONA LEWIS When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the ...
EMIR KUSTURICA …the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enoug...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD It's not the end of the world to lose.
ANDY MURRAY At the end of the day, I'm a man.
DANIEL CORMIER Work hard! In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.
PETE DOCTER A job is just a job at the end of the day, and work sometimes comes from the most unlikely places.
DAN BUCATINSKY She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING The End is Nigh!" the man shouted.
"Is there still time for hot chocolate?" Riley asked.
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JANA OLIVER It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there.
PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU Let me finish my beer." (Stark)
"Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian)
RICHARD KADREY Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the...
KAREL CAPEK In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
DONALD TRUMP I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.
AARON CIECHANOVER It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.
ED BELFOUR The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. I...
CHARLES EAMES In the end, you need to be a little masochistic to be a goalkeeper. A masochist and egocentric as we...
GIANLUIGI BUFFON By putting the employee first, the customer effectively comes first by default, and in the end, the ...
RICHARD BRANSON You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of ...
HO CHI MINH In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
LEARNED HAND Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.
JUDY GREER In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.
GRACE PALEY In the end, of course, Republicans ended slavery and permanently outlawed it through the Thirteenth ...
DINESH D'SOUZA The real deal is always going to win in the end.
BILL HYBELS Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it&...
JAMES DASHNER I embraced, I think, the process of becoming No. 1 of the world, which was long and difficult, but i...
NOVAK DJOKOVIC The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.
AJAY DEVGAN You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.
DIANA ROSS At the end of the day, it's all about money.
GARRY KASPAROV Our surroundings fade and we exist in unison, two people who once shared cups of coffee, unprecedent...
CAROLINE GEORGE In the end, I was doing night shoots on 'Gilmore Girls' and then wrapping and going straight...
TANC SADE Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
JACK KEROUAC In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
STEVE WOZNIAK In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.
LEE IACOCCA You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end...
MAX LERNER Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.
GEORGE MICHAEL The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, dimin...
MARYA MANNES Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.
GEORGE CLOONEY I'm the know-nothing. I'm curious, I try to be entertaining, I try to translate the techno j...
DAVID POGUE In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have...
LEMONY SNICKET The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bay...
MOTHER JONES When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future.
JEFFREY FRY I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end...
LARRY BIRD You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
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NIGEL HAMILTON Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on...
NIGEL HAMILTON The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already ove...
NIGEL HAMILTON For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Phi...
NIGEL HAMILTON I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill's doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous...
NIGEL HAMILTON Republican isolationists had certainly tied the hands of every U.S. president, year after year - ber...
NIGEL HAMILTON We've sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like...
NIGEL HAMILTON I believe I can lead this party from the front as a campaigning organization.
NIGEL FARAGE We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free.
NIGEL FARAGE I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best...
NIGEL MANSELL To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
NIGEL LAWSON Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
NIGEL SHORT I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rus...
NIGEL MANSELL Our only president who has died as U.S. commander in chief in war is Franklin Delano Roosevelt - who...
NIGEL HAMILTON Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia.
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