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  “ Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm. ” – Thomas Fuller People are very easy to make sudden choices in hard time and forget them later.

  “I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.” —Mark Twain

  What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches?  - The Quarterly Review, England (March 1825)   The abolishment of pain in surgery is a chimaera. It is absurd to go on seeking it. . . . Knife and pain are two words in surgery that must forever be associated in the consciousness of the patient.  - Dr. Alfred Velpeau (1839) French surgeon   Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as an attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.  - Dr. Dionysus Lardner (1838) Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, University College, London   The foolish idea of shooting at the moon is an example of the absurd length to which vicious specialization will carry scientists working in thought-tight compartments.  - A.W. Bickerton (1926) Professor of Physics and Chemistry, Canterbury College, New Zealand   When the Paris Exhibition closes electric light will close with it and no more be heard

  Casuistry  (cas·u·ist·ry/  KAZH-ew-iss-tree )  Clever but unsound reasoning claiming to resolve moral problems by applying theoretical rules to new situations. Derived from the Latin noun  casus , meaning “case,” the word originally referred to a “case of conscience.” From its earliest origins, it was used to unmask deceptive moralizing that attempts to exploit rational argument, defend untenable conclusions, and validate intellectual bias. The proliferation of casuistry is all around us—on social media, in business strategies, and in what passes for political debate. Once we’ve concluded that we already know the answers to our questions, we enter the world of decision-based facts, heedless of the obvious truism that successful outcomes rest on a foundation of fact-based decisions.

 

  “The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.” ― George Bernard Shaw

  " Business is about being the best that you can be, and there are always glowing examples of people that we can all learn from " - John Caudwell