Collected quotations - Published on the occasion of Art Nesse's 85th birthday.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice because its extremes are not subject to the regulation of conscience (anonymous)
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Lined coat, warm cap and easy felt slippers
in the little home, at the window, sitting near the fire
body at rest, heart at peace; no need to rise early
I wonder if the workers at headquarters know of these things or not
Po Chu i 800AD
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"Don't allow your subnordinate to delegate up, "he said "don't find yourself doing his job you are the coach; you don't play his position for him. If you are spending too much time guiding somebody, correcting his errors, cleaning up after him, you have not choice--you have to make the inevitable decision." (unattributed)
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"I have thoroughly conceptualized my work for this week, but to my chagrin, I find it is simply not operationally feasible." Yale University Professor, in New Yorker Magazine, May 1967