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It's worse than that. Those people who wanted to round pi to 3.2 were stupid. These people [the opponents of expensing options] are worse than stupid. They know it's wrong and want to do it anyway.


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CHARLES DARWIN I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much belove...
CHARLES DARWIN Without speculation there is no good and original observation.
CHARLES DARWIN The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is impor...
CHARLES DARWIN It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most resp...
CHARLES DARWIN It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong'...
CHARLES DARWIN ...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
CHARLES DARWIN I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find o...
CHARLES LAMB The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.
CHARLES ELIOT You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
CHARLES BUXTON Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, wor...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each ot...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear ...
CHARLES SPURGEON Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, u...
CHARLES BURNEY