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Familiar Quotations
Squads
Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.
–Eldridge Cleaver
Each generation produces its squad of ''moderns'' with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
–Channing Pollock
Squads – "Bunch"
A bunch of hokey religions and ancient weapons ain't no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.
–Star Wars
Squads – "Company"
When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
–W. H. Auden
No company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of other than their virtues, as disease is more contagious than health.
–Charles Caleb Colton
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
–Euripides
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
–J. Paul Getty
Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.
–Michael LeBoeuf
Once you shape a company to service the marketplace and your services are necessary, the company develops a compulsion of its own to grow.
–Elisabeth Claiborne Ortenberg
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
–Thomas Peters
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Squads
Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.
–Eldridge Cleaver
Each generation produces its squad of ''moderns'' with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
–Channing Pollock
Squads – "Bunch"
A bunch of hokey religions and ancient weapons ain't no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.
–Star Wars
Squads – "Company"
When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
–W. H. Auden
No company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of other than their virtues, as disease is more contagious than health.
–Charles Caleb Colton
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
–Euripides
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
–J. Paul Getty
Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.
–Michael LeBoeuf
Once you shape a company to service the marketplace and your services are necessary, the company develops a compulsion of its own to grow.
–Elisabeth Claiborne Ortenberg
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
–Thomas Peters
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