Any new venture goes through the following stages: Enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent and decoration of those who did nothing. – Anon.
So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, Where is faith being put into action here? – Jim Wallis
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results. – Sun Tzu
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing ones ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. – Victor Cherbuliez
