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Individual freedom has proved to be a powerful, beneficent force.  We are better off because scientists have been free to pursue knowledge, because each individual has been free to try to increase the prosperity of his family and because victims of discrimination have been free to protest and struggle.  --Herbert Stein

It often comes down to a 'He said. She said.'  Employers just don't use the same type of procedures a court of law does, and you can't.  It's a difficult situation employers find themselves in.  --Howard Mintz

Invariably they tell their employers they are leaving to go home.   But very few actually do so.  Women do not want to burn their bridges.  They start their own businesses.  Or they look for jobs where they can have a better balance, or where the opportunities for advancement are better.  And they find them.  --Sheila  Wellington

If you have a rigid, tension-filled job in which you think you lack control, the level of anxiety and depression could increase.  In that case, abandoning the job might be a mental health benefit.  --Peggy Thoits

Short-term thinking limits a company's reach, undermines its stability and frustrates efficiency, while longer-term strategies produce the opposite results.  If the goal is to assure growth and perpetuation, then a longer-term approach achieves the best results.  --John Graham

They have a few goofy items like chile fudge but the core competency is in the salsa edibles.  The question goes begging -- is there enough of a specialty market for chile lovers?  Maybe.  Certainly the holidays should be good for business.  You can give them to your friends that love chiles and to your enemies that don't.    --Jack D. Deal

Less hunting.  More gathering.  --WINFO Online

You do your best work when you're having fun.   --Xerox

"Just teach or tell us something we don't know."  P.Y. Yang to corporate spy Victor Lee.

If you aren't happy with what you've got now, what makes you think you will be happy with more?  --Anonymous

No one agrees with other people's opinions; they merely agree with their own opinions expressed by somebody else.  --Sydney Tremayne


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