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Serial No And I quote Who said Date Reference

151 In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence "The Peter Principle" by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull 91/01/01 Japanese189

265 If we discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason- for then we would truly know the mind of God. Stephen Hawking
Concluding sentence of A Brief History of Time 98/06/04 "The Mind of God"
by Paul Davis

266 The best way to predict the future is to create it. Peter Drucker 98/06/16 Dr. Gadeken cited in IPMA meeting.

279 We trained hard---- but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized.
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. Petronius Arbiter
Rome, 66 A.D. 98/07/25 Dr. Gadeken cited in IPMA meeting.

280 Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning in Africa a lion wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the gazelle or it will starve.
It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle---
When the sun comes up, you'd better be running. Norm Augustine
Augustine's Travels 98/07/25 Dr. Gadeken cited in IPMA meeting.

281 Managing project in this environment is similar to raising cattle in some of the more barren areas of Texas where it is said that a cow must graze at 60 miles per hour simply to stay alive. Norm Augustine
Augustine's Travels 98/07/25 Dr. Gadeken cited in IPMA meeting.

370 England expects every man to do his duty. Nelson 2000/04/09 Japanese 28

371 We have met the enemy,
and he is us.
Pogo 2000/04/09 Japanese 35

372 If I wasn't hard
I couldn't be alive
If I couldn't ever be gentle
I wouldn't deserve to alive from "Play Back" by R. Chandler 2000/04/09 Japanese 57

373 Don't listen critics
no stature ever made on critics Jean Sibelius 1865-1957? 2000/04/09 Japanese 58

374 NARRATOR
"A French man recently criticized the US. He said that America is a wasteland, a cultural desert. You people has no culture, none. He sys the only thing you gave the world is ronkn` rolls and Harley Davidson."

Peter Fonda
"Yea, well that may be the case.
Then what more you need." Peter Fonda 2000/04/09 Japanese 72

375 Control your destiny, or some one else will
Face realty as it is, not as it was or as you wish it were
Be candid with everyone
Don't manage; lead
Change before you have to
If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete Jack Welch's
Six Rules for Success 2000/04/09 Japanese 102

376 divide and rule
divide et impera
A principle of controlling complexity found by Romans and refound by British. 2000/04/09 Japanese 144

377 Unlearning main cause of misleading 2000/04/09 Japanese 147

378 Out of sight, out of mind old saying 2000/04/09 Japanese 197

379 If winter comes, can Spring be behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley

his epitaph: Here lies, one whose name was writ in water 2000/04/09 Japanese 260

380 There are no whole truth; all truths are half-truths. Whitehead 2000/04/09 Japanese 313

381 ...creation is a continuing process, and `the process is itself the actuality`, since no sooner do you arrive than you start on a fresh journey Whitehead 2000/04/09 Japanese 314

382 From being to becoming Ilya Prigogine 1917- 2000/04/09 Japanese 315

383 First flight has been achieved Wright Brothers 2000/04/09 Japanese 337

384 Though I am old with wandering

Through hollow lands and hay lands

I will find out where she has gone

And kiss her lips and take her hands

And walk among long dappled grass

And pluck till time and times are done

The silver apples of the moon

The golden apples of the sun W. B. Yeats 93/12/31

385 From Settin in Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Sir Winston Churchill
the speech entitled "The Sinews of Peace", given to Westminster Colledge, Fulton, Missouri, 1946 2000/04/23 origin of the word "iron curtain"

386 Through them, you see the rise and fall of the fields beyond, piled upon one another like pillows. The Buttercup field, which is nearest, slopes down to the small brook that runs between four willows; beyond that, the Rise, overlapping with the Dove house field, and so gently on, and up, to where the topmost field lies like an arm outstretched, and forms a boundary to one side of the village. On a few, very clear days in winter, you can even see further, right over the top of the apple tree to where the blue hump of the village of Hope-Hope-on-the-Slope-is sometimes visible. But, mostly, there is mist or some other grayness obscuring it, and later in the year it is almost blocked out by the foliage. Susan Hill
from The Magic Apple Tree, 1982 2000/04/23

387 Dearest,
I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best things to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I knew that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. O can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that- everybody knows it. If any body could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer.
I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
V. Virginia Woolf
the last letter to Leonard,1941 2000/04/23

398 the winners of past wars were not always the armies with the best generals and weapons, but were often merely those bearing the nastiest germs to transmit to their enemies. Jared Diamond 2000/8/18 in his book "Guns, Germs, and Steel"

404 Good judgment comes from experience.
And when does experience come from -----
Experience comes from bad judgment.
Mark Twain 2000/11/8 Prof. Yotsuyanagi

407 Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners. W. Shakespeare, Othello I-III 2000/11/26 Prof. Suzuki

408 You must remember this
A kiss is still a kiss
A sigh is just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by

And when two lovers woo
They still say I love you
On that you can rely
No matter what the future brings
As times goes by
....... Herman Hupfeld,
"As Time Goes By" in mivie Casablanca 1942 2000/12/20 Ron Cooper

426 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 1 Corintheans 13 2001/1/30 Tony Blair read this chapter in the funeral for Princes Dyana.

553 No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness or as good as drink. G. K. Chesterton 2001/12/8 Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited
by Ron Cooper

554 Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. Ambrose Bierce 2001/12/8 Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited
by Ron Cooper

555 I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast. W. C. Fields
2001/12/8 Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited
by Ron Cooper

556 I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.

Who wouldn't? Lady Astor, Social reformer

A voice from the crowd
2001/12/8 Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited
by Ron Cooper

557 Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it. Lady Astor to Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill's reply 2001/12/8 Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes
by cited Ron Cooper

558 Adhere to the Schweinheitsgebot. Don't put anything in your beer that a pig wouldn't eat. David Geary 2001/12/8 Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited
by Ron Cooper

559 One more drink and I'd be under the host. Dorothy Parker 2001/12/8 Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited
by Ron Cooper

560 The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. 2001/12/8 Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited
by Ron Cooper

561 Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine. David Moulton 2001/12/8 Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited
by Ron Cooper

562 A drink a day keeps the shrink away. Edward Abbey
2001/12/8 Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes
by Ron Cooper

563 Put it back in the horse! H. Allen Smith, an American humorist in the '30s-'50s, after
he drank his first American beer at a bar.
2001/12/8 Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited
by Ron Cooper

564 Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime! Bill Owen
2001/12/8 Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited
by Ron Cooper

565 Okay, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me. Let's just take this exam so I can get back to killing you with beer. Homer Simpson 2001/12/8 Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited
by Ron Cooper

622 Aimer, ce n'est pas se regarder l'un l'autre, c'est regarder ensemble dans la meme direction Saint-Exupery 1900-1944 2002/9/8 Mrs. Greenwood

676 Great Truths About Growing Old:

1. Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
2. You're getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking? chair that you once got from a roller coaster.
3. It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to? ask you the questions.
4. Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
5. Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone. Mr. Myrick of Catalytic Inc. 2003/2/12 Masaaki Noguchi introduced this phase

640 HE SERENITY PRAYER

O God, give us
serenity to accept what cannot be changed,
courage to change what should be changed,
and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Reinhold Niebuhr 2003/12/13 Seki Shoutarou
Waseda University

769 It's the genes that, for their own good, are manipulating the bodies they ride about in. The individual organism is a survival machine for its genes." Richard Dawkins's
The Selfish Gene 2004/5/3 Edge
Library Serial No.10

809 Boys be ambitious William Smith Clark 2004/9/25 Asahi, be on Sunday

816 people don't want to go to war.... But, after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a parliament or a communist dictatorship.... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger. It works the same way in any country. Hermann Goering 2004/10/2 Ron Cooper

888 We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. Benjamin Franklin 2005/2/17 The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of
the human genome by honoring those who accidentally kill themselves in really stupid ways.

1483
Et secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.

friendship makes prosperity brighter while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties
Cicero: Laelius. 6.22
2012/6/22
Mr. Mochizuki

1484
Nullius boni sine socio iucunda possessio est.

"There is no pleasure in the possession of any blessing unless we share it with another."
Seneca, Epistolae VI
2012/6/22
Mr. Mochizuki

1486
Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy
Ben Franklin
2012/6/30
Putting away one of my sweaters today, I noticed the quote from Ben Franklin printed on it.
But many people question whether he actually said it, or was talking about wine.
Perhaps the best attribution would be "Commonly Attributed to Benjamin Franklin".

Ron

Serial No	And I quote	Who said	Date	Reference
151	In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence	"The Peter Principle" by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull	91/01/01	Japanese189
265	If we discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason- for then we would truly know the mind of God.	Stephen Hawking Concluding sentence of A Brief History of Time	98/06/04	"The Mind of God" by Paul Davis
266	The best way to predict the future is to create it.	Peter Drucker	98/06/16	Dr. Gadeken cited in IPMA meeting.
279	We trained hard---- but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.	Petronius Arbiter Rome, 66 A.D.	98/07/25	Dr. Gadeken cited in IPMA meeting.
280	Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the gazelle or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle--- When the sun comes up, you'd better be running.	Norm Augustine Augustine's Travels	98/07/25	Dr. Gadeken cited in IPMA meeting.
281	Managing project in this environment is similar to raising cattle in some of the more barren areas of Texas where it is said that a cow must graze at 60 miles per hour simply to stay alive.	Norm Augustine Augustine's Travels	98/07/25	Dr. Gadeken cited in IPMA meeting.
370	England expects every man to do his duty.	Nelson	2000/04/09	Japanese 28
371	We have met the enemy, and he is us.	Pogo	2000/04/09	Japanese 35
372	If I wasn't hard I couldn't be alive If I couldn't ever be gentle I wouldn't deserve to alive	from "Play Back" by R. Chandler	2000/04/09	Japanese 57
373	Don't listen critics no stature ever made on critics	Jean Sibelius 1865-1957?	2000/04/09	Japanese 58
374	NARRATOR "A French man recently criticized the US. He said that America is a wasteland, a cultural desert. You people has no culture, none. He sys the only thing you gave the world is ronkn` rolls and Harley Davidson." Peter Fonda "Yea, well that may be the case. Then what more you need."	Peter Fonda	2000/04/09	Japanese 72
375	Control your destiny, or some one else will Face realty as it is, not as it was or as you wish it were Be candid with everyone Don't manage; lead Change before you have to If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete	Jack Welch's Six Rules for Success	2000/04/09	Japanese 102
376	divide and rule divide et impera	A principle of controlling complexity found by Romans and refound by British.	2000/04/09	Japanese 144
377	Unlearning	main cause of misleading	2000/04/09	Japanese 147
378	Out of sight, out of mind	old saying	2000/04/09	Japanese 197
379	If winter comes, can Spring be behind?	Percy Bysshe Shelley his epitaph: Here lies, one whose name was writ in water	2000/04/09	Japanese 260
380	There are no whole truth; all truths are half-truths.	Whitehead	2000/04/09	Japanese 313
381	...creation is a continuing process, and `the process is itself the actuality`, since no sooner do you arrive than you start on a fresh journey	Whitehead	2000/04/09	Japanese 314
382	From being to becoming	Ilya Prigogine 1917-	2000/04/09	Japanese 315
383	First flight has been achieved	Wright Brothers	2000/04/09	Japanese 337
384	Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hay lands I will find out where she has gone And kiss her lips and take her hands And walk among long dappled grass And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon The golden apples of the sun	W. B. Yeats	93/12/31
385	From Settin in Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.	Sir Winston Churchill the speech entitled "The Sinews of Peace", given to Westminster Colledge, Fulton, Missouri, 1946	2000/04/23	origin of the word "iron curtain"
386	Through them, you see the rise and fall of the fields beyond, piled upon one another like pillows. The Buttercup field, which is nearest, slopes down to the small brook that runs between four willows; beyond that, the Rise, overlapping with the Dove house field, and so gently on, and up, to where the topmost field lies like an arm outstretched, and forms a boundary to one side of the village. On a few, very clear days in winter, you can even see further, right over the top of the apple tree to where the blue hump of the village of Hope-Hope-on-the-Slope-is sometimes visible. But, mostly, there is mist or some other grayness obscuring it, and later in the year it is almost blocked out by the foliage.	Susan Hill from The Magic Apple Tree, 1982	2000/04/23
387	Dearest, I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best things to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I knew that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. O can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that- everybody knows it. If any body could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V.	Virginia Woolf the last letter to Leonard,1941	2000/04/23
398	the winners of past wars were not always the armies with the best generals and weapons, but were often merely those bearing the nastiest germs to transmit to their enemies.	Jared Diamond	2000/8/18	in his book "Guns, Germs, and Steel"
404	Good judgment comes from experience. And when does experience come from ----- Experience comes from bad judgment.	Mark Twain	2000/11/8	Prof. Yotsuyanagi
407	Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.	W. Shakespeare, Othello I-III	2000/11/26	Prof. Suzuki
408	You must remember this A kiss is still a kiss A sigh is just a sigh The fundamental things apply As time goes by And when two lovers woo They still say I love you On that you can rely No matter what the future brings As times goes by .......	Herman Hupfeld, "As Time Goes By" in mivie Casablanca 1942	2000/12/20	Ron Cooper
426	If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.	1 Corintheans 13	2001/1/30	Tony Blair read this chapter in the funeral for Princes Dyana.
553	No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness or as good as drink.	G. K. Chesterton	2001/12/8	Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited by Ron Cooper
554	Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.	Ambrose Bierce	2001/12/8	Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited by Ron Cooper
555	I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.	W. C. Fields	2001/12/8	Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited by Ron Cooper
556	I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer. Who wouldn't?	Lady Astor, Social reformer A voice from the crowd	2001/12/8	Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited by Ron Cooper
557	Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink. Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.	Lady Astor to Winston Churchill Winston Churchill's reply	2001/12/8	Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes by cited Ron Cooper
558	Adhere to the Schweinheitsgebot. Don't put anything in your beer that a pig wouldn't eat.	David Geary	2001/12/8	Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited by Ron Cooper
559	One more drink and I'd be under the host.	Dorothy Parker	2001/12/8	Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited by Ron Cooper
560	The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.	The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.	2001/12/8	Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited by Ron Cooper
561	Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine.	David Moulton	2001/12/8	Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited by Ron Cooper
562	A drink a day keeps the shrink away.	Edward Abbey	2001/12/8	Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes by Ron Cooper
563	Put it back in the horse!	H. Allen Smith, an American humorist in the '30s-'50s, after he drank his first American beer at a bar.	2001/12/8	Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited by Ron Cooper
564	Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!	Bill Owen	2001/12/8	Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited by Ron Cooper
565	Okay, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me. Let's just take this exam so I can get back to killing you with beer.	Homer Simpson	2001/12/8	Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited by Ron Cooper
622	Aimer, ce n'est pas se regarder l'un l'autre, c'est regarder ensemble dans la meme direction	Saint-Exupery 1900-1944	2002/9/8	Mrs. Greenwood
676	Great Truths About Growing Old: 1. Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. 2. You're getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking? chair that you once got from a roller coaster. 3. It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to? ask you the questions. 4. Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. 5. Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.	Mr. Myrick of Catalytic Inc.	2003/2/12	Masaaki Noguchi introduced this phase
640	HE SERENITY PRAYER O God, give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed, courage to change what should be changed, and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.	Reinhold Niebuhr	2003/12/13	Seki Shoutarou Waseda University
769	It's the genes that, for their own good, are manipulating the bodies they ride about in. The individual organism is a survival machine for its genes."	Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene	2004/5/3	Edge Library Serial No.10
809	Boys be ambitious	William Smith Clark	2004/9/25	Asahi, be on Sunday
816	people don't want to go to war.... But, after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a parliament or a communist dictatorship.... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger. It works the same way in any country.	Hermann Goering	2004/10/2	Ron Cooper
888	We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.	Benjamin Franklin	2005/2/17	The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally kill themselves in really stupid ways.
1483	Et secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia et adversas partiens communicansque leviores. friendship makes prosperity brighter while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties	Cicero: Laelius. 6.22	2012/6/22	Mr. Mochizuki
1484	Nullius boni sine socio iucunda possessio est. "There is no pleasure in the possession of any blessing unless we share it with another."	Seneca, Epistolae VI	2012/6/22	Mr. Mochizuki
1486	Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy	Ben Franklin	2012/6/30	Putting away one of my sweaters today, I noticed the quote from Ben Franklin printed on it. But many people question whether he actually said it, or was talking about wine. Perhaps the best attribution would be "Commonly Attributed to Benjamin Franklin". Ron

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