I'm not sure how to say this without making it sound corny, but I honestly feel this is the way to run a business. Our work force needs to mirror these communities, and we've got to get aggressive in recruiting and promoting minorities.
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LENNY BRUCE Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to thin... BRUCE BARTON When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful o... BRUCE BARTON If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your t... BRUCE JENNER If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. BRUCE BARTON The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance... LENNY BRUCE The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere ... BRUCE BABBIT I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ... BRUCE STERLING All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without diseas... LENNY BRUCE The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. LENNY BRUCE No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one va... BRUCE BARTON Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity tha... BRUCE BARTON As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words eve... BRUCE BARTON What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will no... BRUCE BARTON Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln. BRUCE BARTON The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them. LENNY BRUCE In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls. LENNY BRUCE The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than ... BRUCE BARTON We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wi... BRUCE BARTON A lot of people say to me, Why did you kill Christ? I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out ... LENNY BRUCE In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part. MICHAEL BRUCE When you're through changing, you're through. BRUCE BARTON If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric... LENNY BRUCE