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Mark Knopfler

Mark Freuder Knopfler OBE (born 12 August 1949) is a British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and film score composer, best known as the lead guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for the British rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded in 1977 with his brother David.

Dire Straits (1978)

 * You say I'm the greatest, bound for glory. Well the word is out and I learned. I got the latest side of the story: You're pulling out before you get burned.
 * Setting Me Up

 * And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene He's got a daytime job, he's doing alright. He can play the honky tonk like anything, Saving it up for Friday night. With the Sultans... with the Sultans of Swing.
 * Sultans of Swing

 * Stepping out to Angellucci's for my coffee beansChecking out the movies and the magazinesWaitress she watches me crossing from the Barocco BarI'm getting a pickup for my steel guitarI saw you walking out Shaftesbury AvenueExcuse me for talking I wanna marry youThis is the seventh heaven street to meDon't be so proud  You're just another angel in the crowdAnd I'm walking in the wild west endWalking with your wild best friendAnd my conductress on the number nineteenShe was a honeyPink toenails and hands all dirty with moneyGreasy hair, easy smileMade me feel nineteen for a while
 * Wild West End

Communiqué, (1979)

 * Lady writer on the TV She had all the brains and the beauty. The picture does not fit You talked to me when you felt like it. Just the way that her hair fell down around her face Then I recall my fall from grace Another time, another place.
 * Lady Writer

Making Movies (1980)

 * Getting crazy on the Waltzers, but it's the life that I choose. Sing about the sixblade, sing about the switchback and a torture tattoo. And I been riding on a ghost train where the cars they scream and slam, And I don't know where I'll be tonight but I'd always tell you where I am.
 * Tunnel of Love, written with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II

 * A love struck Romeo, sings a street-suss serenade; Laying everybody low, with a love song that he made. Finds a convenient street light, steps out of the shade He says something like, "You and me babe, how about it?"
 * Juliet says, "Hey, it's Romeo. You nearly give me a heart attack."He's underneath the window; she's singing, "Hey, la, my boyfriend's back.
You shouldn't come around here singing up at people like that.
 Anyway what you gonna do about it?"
 * Romeo and Juliet

 * Juliet, the dice was loaded from the start
And I bet, then you exploded in my heart
 And I forget, I forget the movie song
When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong? Juliet.
We come up on different streets, they both were streets of shame
Both dirty, both mean, yes, and the dream was just the same
And I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real
How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?
 * When you can fall for chains of silver, you can fall for chains of gold
You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold
You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin, yeah.
Now you just say, "Oh, Romeo, yeah. You know, I used to have a scene with him."

 * Romeo and Juliet

 * I seen a girl on a one way corridor Stealing down a wrong way street For all the world like an urban toreador She had wheels on her feet Well the cars do the usual dances Same old cruise and the curbside crawl But the roller girl she's taking chances They just love to see her take them all No fears alone at night she's sailing through the crowd In her ears the phones are tight and the music's playing loud
 * Hallelujah here she comes queen rollerball Om Shanti what can I say don't care at all You know she used to have to wait around She used to be the lonely one But now that she can skate around town She's the only one
 * Skateaway

 * She gets rock n roll, a rock n roll station And a rock n roll dream. She's making movies on location. She don't know what it means. But the music make her wanna be the story. And the story was whatever was the song, what it was. Rollergirl don't worry. D.J. plays the movies all night long.
 * Skateaway

 * She gets the sun in the daytime Perfume in the dusk And she comes out in the night time With the honeysuckle musk Because she smells just like a rose And she tastes just like a peach She got me walking where the wildlife goes I'd do anything to reach her And she was made in heaven Heaven's in the world
 * Expresso Love

'Love over Gold' (1982)

 * A long time ago came a man on a track Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back And he put down his load Where he thought it was the best He made a home in the wilderness He built a cabin and a winter store And he plowed up the ground by the cold lake shore And the other travelers came walking down the track And they never went further, no They never went back Yes, and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed We're gonna have to reap from some seed that's been sowed
 * Telegraph Road

 * Well, I'd sooner forget, but I remember those nights Yeah, life was just a bet on a race between the lights You had your head on my shoulder Your hand in my hair Now you act a little colder Like you don't seem to care
 * Telegraph Road

 * You get to meet all sorts in this line of work Treachery and treason, there's always an excuse for it And when I find the reason, I still can't get used to it And what have you got at the end of the day? What have you got to take away? A bottle of whisky and a new set of lies
 * Private Investigations

 * The caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post They're refusing to be pacified, it's him they blame the most. The watchdog's got rabies, the foreman's got the fleas. And everyone's concerned about Industrial Disease. There's panic on the switchboard, tongues are tied in knots. Some come out in sympathy, some come out in spots. Some blame the management, some blame the employees. And everybody knows it's the Industrial Disease.
 * Industrial Disease

 * Two men say they’re Jesus, one of them must be wrong.
 * Industrial Disease

 * It takes love over gold And mind over matter To do what you do that you must When the things that you hold Can fall and be shattered Or run through your fingers like dust
 * Love Over Gold

Brothers in Arms (1985)

 * I'm tired of being in love and being all alone When you're so far away from me. I'm tired of making out on the telephone Because you're so far away from me.
 * So Far Away

 * Now look at them yo-yo's, that's the way you do it You play the guitar on the MTV. That ain't workin', that's the way you do it. Money for nothin' and chicks for free. Now that ain't workin', that's the way you do it Lemme tell ya them guys ain't dumb. Maybe get a blister on your little finger; Maybe get a blister on your thumb.
 * Money for Nothing, written with Sting

 * Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay. He got the action, he got the motion Oh yeah the boy can play. Dedication, devotion Turning all the night time into the day.
 * Walk of Life

 * All the late night bargains have been struck Between the satin beaus and their belles. Prehistoric garbage trucks Have the city to themselves Echoes and roars, dinosaurs They're all doing the monster mash. And most of the taxis, most of the whores Are only taking calls for cash. I don't know how it happened It all took place so quick. But all I can do is hand it to you And your latest trick.
 * Your Latest Trick

 * Why worry? There should be laughter after pain. There should be sunshine after rain. These things have always been the same. So why worry now?
 * Why Worry

 * Through these fields of destruction Baptisms of fire I've witnessed your suffering As the battles raged higher And though they hurt me so bad In the fear and alarm You did not desert me My brothers in arms.
 * Brothers in Arms

 * But it's written in the starlight And every line in your palm We're fools to make war On our brothers in arms.
 * Brothers in Arms

On Every Street (1991)

 * A three-chord symphony crashes into space The moon is hanging upside down I don't know why it is I'm still on the case It's a ravenous town And you still refuse to be traced Seems to me such a waste And every victory has a taste that's bittersweet
 * On Every Street
 * If we can't get along we oughta be apart And I'm wondering where'd you get that cold, cold heart Set me free - sign my release I'm tired of being the villain of the peace
 * When It Comes to You

 * Sometimes you're the windshield Sometimes you're the bug Sometimes it all come together baby Sometimes you're a fool in love Sometimes you're the Louisville Slugger baby Sometimes you're the ball Sometimes it all come together Sometimes you're gonna lose it all
 * The Bug

 * Last time I was sober, man I felt bad Worst hangover that I ever had. It took six hamburgers and scotch all night Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right. ’Cause if you wanna run cool, If you wanna run cool, If you wanna run cool, you got to run On heavy, heavy fuel.
 * Heavy Fuel

 * Oh the iron will and the iron hand In England's green and pleasant land No music for the shameful scene That night they said it had even shocked the queen
 * Iron Hand

 * I can see what you're looking to find In the smile on my face In my peace of mind In my state of grace I send what I can To the man from the ministry He's a part of heaven's plan And he talks to me Now I send what I can to the man With the diamond ring
 * Ticket to Heaven

Kill to Get Crimson (2007)
Lyrics by Mark Knopfler

 * I wonder if there's no forever
No walking hand in hand
Down a yellow brick road
To never never land
These days I get to where I'm going
Make it there eventually
Follow the trail of breadcrumbs
To where I'm meant to be ...
When I think about us
I see the picture that we made
The picture to remind us
True love will never fade.
 * I worked the rowdies and daytrippers
Now and then I think of you
Any which way we're all shufflin'
Forward in the queue
They'd like to move my operation
They'd like to get me off the pier
And I dream I'm on a steamer
Pullin' out of here
 * True love will never fade

 * MacIntyre's teaching us waltzing Out on the gymnasium floor McIntyre's out of the army You'll be slippered if you get him wrong McIntyre's din booms loud in the gym And we've only got a little short song We've only got a little short song
 * And it's one, two, three, two, two we're all a disgrace McIntyre tore us apart And we dance with ourselves when we'd all found a space Waltzing with fear in our hearts
 * Secondary Waltz

 * When it's pop goes the weasel Let go of the easel You don't want This rickety rackety life It's seat of the trousers It's all sink or swim, son...
 * These are not my decisions Flaming visions Ringing expressions The clamouring voice It's volcanic desire The unquenchable fire It isn't a question Of having the choice Anyway, now I'm old But if you won't be told If you've been created To answer the call All passion and lust Is going to end in the dust But you'll hang on some Government gallery wall
 * You must go, forget it Let it all go, let it all go Go, forget it, let it all go
 * Let it all go

 * Are you home from the sea, my soul balladeer
You've been away roaming far away from here
 weathered a storm, your heart unafraid
crossed every ocean in the boat that you made.... You're a light in the dark, a beacon of hope
and strong as a sea boat, strong as a rope.
And the vagabond wind, whispers over the bay
and the songs and the laughter, are carried away in the sky.
 * In the Sky

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Half-Life

Half-Life is a science fiction first-person shooter video game series which consists of three full games, two half-length "episodes", two side stories and three expansion packs; the first game, Half-Life, was released in 1998. The protagonist of the series is Gordon Freeman, a theoretical physicist whose actions at the Black Mesa Research Facility inadvertently create a post-apocalyptic world. Expansions of the game Half-Life feature other controllable characters.

Half-Life (1998)

 * Black Mesa Transit Announcement System: Good morning, and welcome to the Black Mesa Transit System. This automated train is provided for the security and convenience of the Black Mesa Research Facility personnel. The time is 8:47 A.M. Current topside temperature is 93 degrees with an estimated high of one hundred and five. The Black Mesa Compound is maintained at a pleasant 68 degrees at all times.

 * This train is inbound from Level 3 Dormitories to Sector C Test Labs and Control Facilities. If your intended destination is a high security area beyond Sector C, you will need to return to the Central Transit Hub in Area 9 and board a high security train. If you have not yet submitted your identity to the retinal clearance system, you must report to Black Mesa personnel for processing before you will be permitted into the high security branch of the transit system.

 * Due to the high toxicity of material routinely handled in the Black Mesa compound, no smoking, eating, or drinking are permitted within the Black Mesa Transit System. Please keep your limbs inside the train at all times. Do not attempt to open the doors until the train has come to a complete halt at the station platform. In the event of an emergency, passengers are to remain seated and await further instruction. If it is necessary to exit the train, disabled personnel should be evacuated first. Please, stay away from electrified rails, and proceed to an emergency station until assistance arrives.

 * A reminder that the Black Mesa Hazard Course decathlon will commence this evening at 19:00 hours in the Level 3 facility. The semi-finals for high security personnel will be announced in a separate secure access transmission. Remember, more lives than your own may depend on your fitness.

 * Do you have a friend or relative who would make a valuable addition to the Black Mesa team? Immediate openings are available in the areas of "Materials Handling" and "Low-Clearance Security." Please contact Black Mesa personnel for further information. If you have an associate with a background in the areas of "Theoretical Physics," "Biotechnology," or other high-tech disciplines, please contact our Civilian Recruitment Division. The Black Mesa Research Facility is an equal-opportunity employer.

 * A reminder to all Black Mesa personnel. Regular radiation and biohazard screenings are a requirement of continued employment in the Black Mesa Research Facility. Missing a scheduled urinalysis or radiation check-up is grounds for immediate termination. If you feel you have been exposed to radioactive or other hazardous materials in the course of your duties, contact your radiation safety officer immediately. Work safe, work smart. Your future depends on it.

 * Now arriving at Sector C Test Labs and Control Facilities. Please stand back from the automated door and wait for the security officer to verify your identity. Before exiting the train, be sure to check your area for personal belongings. Thank you, and have a very safe, and productive day.

 * Barney Calhoun: [at the start of the game, repeats almost every time you talk to "one"] Hey, catch me later. I'll buy you a beer!

 * HECU soldier: I killed twelve dumbass scientists and not one of 'em fought back. This sucks.

 * Scientist: Well, so much for the government, their idea of containment is to kill everyone associated with the project! Judging by your hazard suit I'd say you were part of what went wrong, isn't that right? Now look, if anyone can end this catastrophe it's the science team in the Lambda Complex at the opposite end of the base. With the transit system out I couldn't tell you how to get there, but there's an old decommissioned rail system somewhere through here, beyond the silo complex. If you can make it through the rocket test labs, you might be able to worm your way through the old tunnels to track down whatever's left of the Lambda team. You can trust them. You can trust all of us. Good luck.

 * Scientist: Did you see it? They said it was hauled from the Challenger Deep. But I'm positive that beast never swam in terrestrial waters until a week ago. There is a tranquilizer gun in the shark cage, but I'm not sure it would work on this species … you're welcome to try.

 * Scientist: Gordon Freeman, it is you, isn't it? the Science team is tracking your progress with the Black Mesa Security System. Unfortunately, so has the military. That suit of yours is full of tracking devices! Still, it's better than going naked in this place. It's cold in there and you'll have to hurry. It could sap your suit power in a matter of moments! If you're bent on reaching the Lambda Complex, then you'll want to keep to the older industrial areas where the security system is full of holes. It's worked for me...so far.

 * [Gordon Freeman regains consciousness after being ambushed by HECU soldiers]
 * HECU soldier #1: Where are we taking this Freeman guy?
 * HECU soldier #2: Topside for questioning.
 * HECU soldier #1: What the hell for? We got him. Let's kill him now!
 * HECU soldier #2: Err, and if they find the body?
 * HECU soldier #1: Body? What body?
 * [Both HECU soldiers laugh evilly]

 * Scientist: Well, I'll let you out, but I'm warning you, it's Hell out there. It's completely under military control! You'll have to sneak and fight your way from one end to the other, and I don't expect you'll meet any of our peers along the way. But, if you do survive, and somehow make it across the base, you'll end up at the Lambda Complex, where the rest of the science team is taking shelter. I wouldn't venture there myself. But I will let them know that you are coming.

 * HECU captain: [after Freeman discovers a tactical map and a radio] Come in, Cooper! Do you copy? Forget about Freeman! We're abandoning the base! If you have any last bomb targets, mark them on the Tactical Map! Otherwise, get the hell outta there! Repeat: we are pulling out and commencing air strikes! Give us targets or get below!

 * HECU soldier #1: So, who is this guy … Freeman?
 * HECU soldier #2: They say he was at ground zero.
 * HECU soldier #1: Science Team … do you think he was responsible? Sabotage, maybe?
 * HECU soldier #2: Yeah, maybe, all I know for sure is he's been killing my buddies.
 * HECU soldier #1: Oh yeah, he'll pay. He will definitely pay.

 * HECU soldier: I didn't sign on for this shit. Monsters, sure, but civilians? Who ordered this operation anyway?

 * HECU captain: Forget about Freeman, we are cutting our losses and pulling out! Anyone left down there now is on his own. Repeat, if you weren't already, you are now! [radio abruptly cuts out]

 * Nihilanth: The truth... you can never know... the truth...

 * The G-Man: [upon completion of the game] Gordon Freeman, in the flesh – or, rather, in the hazard suit. I took the liberty of relieving you of your weapons. Most of them were government property. As for the suit, I think you've earned it. The borderworld, Xen, is in our control, for the time being … thanks to you. Quite a nasty piece of work you managed over there, I am impressed. That's why I'm here, Mr. Freeman. I have recommended your services to my … employers, and they have authorized me to offer you a job. They agree with me that you have limitless potential. You've proved yourself a decisive man so I don't expect you'll have any trouble deciding what to do. If you're interested, just step into the portal and I will take that as a yes. Otherwise, well … I can offer you a battle you have no chance of winning; rather an anticlimax after what you've just survived. Time to choose …
 * [upon choosing to go through the portal] Wisely done Mr. Freeman! I will see you up ahead.
 * [upon "refusing" his offer] Well, it looks like we won't be working together. [The player is teleported in front of an army of aliens.] No regrets, Mr. Freeman…

Half-Life: Opposing Force (1999)

 * Scientist: Oh, you've woken up. Corporal Shephard is it? I've read the tag on your uniform. I'm glad to see my life-saving efforts weren't in vain, I can't say the same for him. [gestures to the dead soldier he tried to revive moments before] I'm afraid you have been through a serious accident. Most of your friends didn't make it. I was hoping you soldiers had come to rescue us, but now it seems that we are all in the same situation. I think I saw a radio near the crash site where I found you, perhaps you can go there and radio for help?

 * HECU commander: Shephard, you're alive! Listen, we've been cut up pretty bad and orders are coming down to pull out; repeat, pull out! Apparently they have other plans with Black Mesa now; if you can make your way through the transit system you can probably reach the surface where we are pulling out. Good luck! Over.

 * Black-ops operator #1: Why do we always have to clean up a mess the grunts can't handle?
 * Black-ops operator #2: Tell me about it. I just want to deliver the package and get out of here.
 * Black-ops operator #1: Yeah, sooner or later the grunts are going to figure it out.

 * HECU soldier #1: Corporal, what the hell is going on here? Nobody told us about Black Operations in the mission briefing.
 * HECU soldier #2: Yeah, I mean we're all on the same team, right? Right?!
 * HECU soldier #1: I'm not sure what their mission is, but we need to keep moving! There's gotta be a transit car somewhere on these tracks.

 * Black Mesa security guard: I guess you're a good guy, Corporal. Listen, you've got to get down below. There's something coming through and it's the nastiest looking thing yet! Some of your buddies went down there a while ago and I haven't seen them since... I've got some weapons I've piled up in here; you better take as much as you can carry, 'cause I think this is it. Good luck, Corporal!

 * The G-Man: [upon completion of the game while a nuclear warhead detonates in the background after that] So Corporal Shephard, we meet at last. Please, don't think that I've been avoiding you, a great many matters require my attention in these … troubled times. I do hope you understand, and now I require a further indulgence on your part: I cannot close my report until every loose end has been tied up. The biggest embarrassment has been the Black Mesa facility, but I think that's finally taken care of itself. Quite so. But there is still the lingering matter of witnesses. I admit I have a fascination with those who adapt and survive against all odds – they rather remind me of myself. If for no other reason, I have argued to preserve you for a time. While I believe a civil servant like yourself understands the importance of … discretion, my employers are not quite so trusting and rather than continually subject you to the irresistible human temptation of telling all, we have decided to … convey you somewhere where you can do no possible harm, and where no harm can come to you. I'm sure you can imagine that there are worse alternatives …

Half-Life: Blue Shift (2001)

 * Scientist: [After a power cut] Oh, no … Its probably those Anomalous Materials people again. Always pushing their equipment too hard, dabbling in who-knows-what. I'd be surprised if there's one good brain among them.

 * Harold: I appreciate your help, but I'm afraid those bastards did their damage already. [coughs] If you were trying to reach the freight yards in hope of escaping, then just forget about it. The military is rounding up everyone and everything they can find, and either killing them or bringing them up here for questioning. So much for a rescue. A colleague and I came up with our own plan for escape, and we were on our way to one of the old prototype labs when we ran into them. But listen to me: if you still want to get out of here alive your only hope may be to find my friend. [coughs] If you can get past the soldiers, find Doctor Rosenberg. With him you may have a chance to get out of this place … [the scientist expires]

 * Dr Rosenberg: [upon completion of the game] Ah, there he is. Calhoun, you've arrived! When you didn't come through right away, we thought that … oh, no, there's something wrong here. Simmons, come look at Calhoun. His body seems to be in some sort of resonance displacement, and I …
 * [Calhoun is teleported to a variety of areas before temporarily stabilizing near two HECU soldiers dragging Freeman along unconscious]
 * HECU soldier #1: Where are we taking this Freeman guy?
 * HECU soldier #2: Top-side for questioning.
 * HECU soldier #1: What the hell for? We got him! Let's kill him now!
 * HECU soldier #2: Err, and if they find the body?
 * HECU soldier #1: Body? What body? [chuckles]
 * [Calhoun is teleported back to Rosenberg]
 * Dr Rosenberg: Thank God you made it! I was worried that a malfunction occurred at the last moment and you might have been caught in an infinite harmonic reflux. If that's the case, you're lucky to be standing here. Then again, we're all lucky. Thanks to you, however, we were able to pull off this half-brained idea. We made it Mr. Calhoun, we made it.

Half-Life 2 (2004)

 * the G-Man: [at the start of the game, over a psychedelic series of images calling back to Half-Life and forward to the final levels] Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman, rise and … shine. Not that I wish … to imply that you have been sleeping on … the job. No one is more deserving of a rest, and all the effort in the world would have gone to waste until … well … let's just say your hour has come again. The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference … in the world. So, wake up, Mr. Freeman. Wake up and … smell the ashes.

 * Wallace Breen: Welcome! Welcome to City 17. You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers. I thought so much of City 17 that I elected to establish my administration here, in the Citadel so thoughtfully provided by our benefactors. I've been proud to call City 17 my home. So, whether you are here to stay, or simply passing through on your way to parts unknown, welcome to City 17. It's safer here.

 * Barney Calhoun: Now … [Barney takes off his mask] about that beer I owed you. It's me, Gordon: Barney, from Black Mesa! Hey, sorry for the scare. I had to put on a show for the cameras. [turns to the console behind him and starts typing] I've been working undercover with Civil Protection. I can't take too long, or they'll get suspicious. I'm way behind on my beating quota.

 * CP officer: [after escaping from an interrogation room with Barney's help, Gordon walks toward a trash receptacle with an aluminum can on it. From the other direction, a Civil Protection officer walks up and knocks the can off with his stunstick] Pick up that can. [Gordon picks up the can] Now, put it in the trash can. [Gordon places it in the trash] All right. You can go. [chuckles, then, into his radio] Reporting citizen summoned to voluntary conscription for general service public detail T94-322.
 * CP officer: [if Gordon throws the can at the CP] I have a priority 2 anticitizen here. Suspect, prepare to receive civil judgment! [he beats Gordon a few times with the stunstick] Now get out of here! [walks away; into his radio] I have a failure to comply with loyalty check, possible 10-103M.

 * Barney Calhoun: We can't keep him here long, Doc. It'll jeopardize everything we've worked for.
 * Alyx Vance: Don't worry. He's coming with me.
 * Isaac Kleiner: That's right, Barney. This is a red letter day. We'll inaugurate the new teleport with a double transmission.
 * Barney Calhoun: You mean it's working? For real this time? Because … I still have nightmares about that cat.
 * Alyx Vance: What cat?
 * Isaac Kleiner: Now, now, there is nothing to be worried about, we have made major strides since then, major strides.
 * Alyx Vance: [more anxiously] What cat?

 * Vortigaunt: [addressing Freeman after being discovered at a hidden campfire] We remember the Freeman. We are coterminous. There is no distance between us. No false veils of time or space may intervene. We see you still in Black Mesa. Clearly we see you in the Nihilanth's chamber. We bear witness to the bright eternity of the Nihilanth's demise. You leap, you fall, we see you flash between the barriers. We are there still, in observance of your final stroke. While our own lay scattered at your feet, you severed the vortal cord that bound the Nihilanth to life, and to us. That sharp spur of hope has not dulled to this day. For once the lesser master lay defeated, we knew the greater must also fall in time.

 * For a brief time you joined with us. You are one. Between the worlds. Communion of the Vortessence. And that other: a deeper mystery. No deeper than the void itself. We cannot forget those whose cords you cut. Forgiveness is not ours to bestow. Unity of purpose, the shattering of common shackles, a single road we tread. Your song we sing and shall sing for eternity. No matter the consequences of this struggle. You have brought us grief and jubilation beyond measure. With you beside us, a talisman of victory, the day of freedom draws nigh.

 * Your bright face obscures your darker mask. We call you sib, although your mind and meaning are a mystery to us. Far distant eyes look out through yours. Something secret steers us both. We shall not name it. We have endured these chafing bonds for eons, yet a single moment of further servitude seems intolerable! How often have we slipped our yoke, only to find it choking us again. Let this war end in either total victory or our extinction. No further compromise shall we allow. We take our stand beside you, here, upon this miserable rock.

 * The way ahead is dark for the moment. What seems to you a sacrifice is merely, to us, an oscillation. We do not fear the interval of darkness. We are a tapestry woven of Vortessence. It is the same for you if only you would see it. How many are there in you? Whose hopes and dreams do you encompass? Could you but see the eyes inside your own, the minds in your mind, you would see how much we share. We are you, Freeman. And you are us.

 * Barney Calhoun: And if you see Dr. Breen, tell him I said fuck you!
 * The line is muffled by background noise in the game but can be heard clearly in the files

 * Wallace Breen: [addressing the Combine Overwatch, who have failed to apprehend Gordon throughout the game] This brings me to the one note of disappointment I must echo from our Benefactors. Obviously I am not on the ground to closely command or second-guess the dedicated forces of the Overwatch, but this does not mean I can shirk responsibility for recent lapses and even outright failures on their part. I have been severely questioned about these shortcomings, and now must put the question to you: How could one man have slipped through your force's fingers time and time again? How is it possible? This is not some agent provocateur or highly trained assassin we are discussing. Gordon Freeman is a theoretical physicist who had hardly earned the distinction of his Ph.D. at the time of the Black Mesa Incident. I have good reason to believe that in the intervening years, he was in a state that precluded further development of covert skills. The man you have consistently failed to slow, let alone capture, is by all standards simply that – an ordinary man.

 * Wallace Breen: I'd like to take a moment to address you directly, Dr. Freeman. Yes, I'm talking to you, the so-called "One Free Man". I have a question for you: how could you have thrown it all away?! It staggers the mind! A man of science with the ability to sway reactionary and fearful minds toward the truth, choosing instead to embark upon a path of ignorance and decay! Make no mistake, Dr. Freeman, this is not a scientific revolution you've sparked. This is death, and finality! You have plunged humanity into freefall. Even if you were to offer your surrender now, I cannot guarantee that our Benefactors would accept it. At the moment, I fear they have begun to look upon even me with suspicion. So much for serving as humanity's representative... Help me win back their trust, Dr. Freeman -- surrender while you still can. Help ensure that humanity's trust in you is not misguided. Do what is right, Dr. Freeman. Serve mankind!

 * Wallace Breen: Well, Dr. Freeman, under other circumstances I like to think we might have been able to work together in an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect. Certainly, judging from your brief tenure at Black Mesa while I was its Administrator, you showed every promise of becoming a valuable and productive contributor to the scientific process. And yet – I'm not sure what spurred you to it – but there is really no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist.
 * Your mentors are partly to blame, of course. My disappointment in Eli Vance and Isaac Kleiner is far greater than my sorrow over your unfortunate choice of career path. In a way, I suppose you could not have done otherwise. Who knows what seeds of iconoclasm they planted when you were young and gullible. But while they certainly share a great part of the responsibility for the recent troubles, it is you alone who have chosen to act with such wilful disregard for humanity's future.
 * Tell me, Dr. Freeman, if you can. You have destroyed so much. What is it, exactly, that you have created? Can you name even one thing? … I thought not.

 * Wallace Breen: I don't know what you can possibly hope to achieve... apart from your own annihilation.

 * Wallace Breen: [addressing Gordon Freeman while preparing to teleport to the Combine homeworld] Dr. Freeman, you really shouldn't be out there. At the moment of synapse as I teleport, this chamber will be bathed in deadly particles that have yet to be named by human science. Perhaps when I'll have the leisure to do the work myself, I'll name one of them after you. That way, you won't be completely forgotten! When the singularity collapses, I'll be far away from here; in another universe, as a matter of fact. You, on the other hand, will be destroyed in every way it is possible to be destroyed and even in some which are essentially impossible!

 * Isaac Kleiner: Fellow citizens! Residents of City 17 and environs! By which I mean "sentient residents", of course, human and otherwise, although I believe there is little need to explain recent developments to our Vortigaunt allies. At any rate, [clears throat] first, as a matter of great urgency: If you still find yourself still within the confines of City 17, you are well-advised to leave the city at once by the fastest means available to you! We have restored service to much of the commuter transport system to carry citizens out of the city as quickly as possible. We have also established camps and triage areas in the surrounding environs.

 * I repeat: You must evacuate the city at once! While there was certainly a great benefit in destroying the Citadel's teleport core, we have detected one rather unfortunate side effect. It would appear an inevitability that, very soon now, the Citadel will be consumed in a destructive event whose magnitude I cannot currently estimate with any certainty, except to say that it will almost certain irradiate a certain area of many miles' radius. Therefore, I repeat: Evacuate City 17 at once! If not sooner. I cannot state this without enough undue emphasis.

 * [When the teleport system is destroyed]
 * Wallace Breen: No! You need me!
 * Alyx Vance: Yes, you did it! Come on, Gordon! We have to get out of here! Maybe we still have –
 * [The teleporter explodes. Time slows down around Gordon, then stops completely]
 * "the G-Man: Time, Dr. Freeman? Is it really that … time again? It seems as if you only just arrived. [G-Man "walks out" from the explosion] You've done a great deal in a small time … span. You've done so well, in fact, that I've received some interesting offers for your services. Ordinarily I wouldn't contemplate them, but these are extra … ordinary times. Rather than offer you the illusion of free choice, I will take the liberty of choosing for you … if and when your time comes round again. [extracts Gordon from the Citadel and enters the "black void" from the beginning of the game] I do apologize for what must seem to you an arbitrary imposition, Dr. Freeman. I trust it will all make sense to you in the course of … [pauses] well, I'm really'' not at liberty to say. In the meantime … this is where I get off.
 * [The G-Man smiles and leaves Gordon in stasis.]

Half-Life 2: Episode One (2006)

 * G-Man: [being held off by a group of Vortigaunts from controlling Gordon] We'll see... about that.

 * [Chapter 1: Dog has suggested throwing a minivan containing Alyx and Gordon into the Citadel, which is hundreds of feet away across a deep pit.]
 * Alyx Vance: Well... Gordon, unless you've got a better suggestion … he is a robot, he's done the math. [to Dog] ... You, uh... did do the math, right?
 * [Dog shakes its head, plates retracted.]
 * Alyx: Uh-huh...

 * Alyx: [entering a Combine control point] I think we just broke about 50 Combine regulations! No eye contact with Combine soldiers; don't damage Combine property; don't kill the Combine representatives; have your papers out and available; no loud noises after 6 o'clock...

 * [Citizen approaches a door to a Resistance safehouse.]
 * Citizen: Hey, it's me. Open the door.
 * [Panel opens to reveal a Resistance member's face]
 * Rebel: What's the password?
 * Citizen: I'm not even gonna tell you to shut up.
 * Rebel: Come on in!

[The door panel closes, and momentarily slides back open to reveal Barney.]
 * Barney: Gordon? Alyx? I don't believe it! [opens the door to let the two in] How the hell'd you get out of the Citadel?
 * Alyx: We're...not exactly sure. All we know is that the Vortigaunts had something to do with it. [now serious] But what about you, Barney?
 * Barney: Well, I'm doin' okay, just going crazy tryin' to —–
 * Female Rebel: They've found us!

''[A Scanner is seen floating just outside one of the windows. One of the rebels destroys it with a shotgun blast.]''
 * Barney: [to Gordon] Aw, hell, Gordon! Were you followed again?!
 * Alyx: We stole some information from the Citadel on our way out. I don't know what it is yet, but it's important enough that they've been hounding us the whole way here.
 * Barney: Well, that puts the pressure on – look, we gotta get moving!

Half-Life 2: Episode Two (2007)

 * Isaac Kleiner: What you're seeing is the infancy of a superportal. If it attains full strength –
 * Eli Vance: It'll be the Seven Hour War, all over again. Except this time, we won't last seven minutes.
 * Alyx Vance: My god … Gordon, maybe that's why they were sending so much data from the Citadel –
 * Dr. Kleiner: Data? From the Citadel?
 * Alyx: In the control room … they were feeding huge volumes of data directly into the core destruction sequence.
 * Dr. Kleiner: [to someone out of the camera's sight] Magnusson, did you hear that?! I bet it's the Combine portal code!
 * Arne Magnusson: Yes, yes, I'm not deaf!
 * Alyx: I downloaded the whole packet, and they have been chasing us ever since.
 * Dr. Magnusson: Well, of course they have! You see Kleiner, it's the lynchpin of all of their plans!
 * Dr. Kleiner: I can see that. I never said –
 * Dr. Magnusson: Now, somewhere in that sequence, they would've had to establish a connection with the far side. What you have there, young lady, is the specific contact code for the Combine Overworld!
 * Eli: Good god …
 * Dr. Magnusson: If I'm right about this – and I have no reason to doubt myself – you are carrying the very code Doctor Mossman had hoped to recover! Now, how soon can you get here?
 * Alyx: Well, we have to get our bearings, but we can't –
 * Dr. Magnusson: There is no time to waste! We'll need to step up the launch schedule and as soon as you get here with the signature data, we'll encode the satellite and get the damn thing into orbit!

 * Vortigaunt: [seeing the rotting body of a person who has committed suicide lying in a chair] A poignant scene. An eternity's repose. It brings peaceful thoughts, does it not?

 * [The Vortigaunts are healing Alyx's injuries, when time suddenly stops]
 * G-Man: [sing-song] Dr. Freeman … [begins to speak with his image imposed over several scenes] I realize this moment may not be the most … convenient for a heart-to-heart, but I had to wait until your [nods backwards and shows one laugh to the Vortigaunts healing Alyx] friends were otherwise occupied. [Background image begins to fade out completely. The G-Man remains visible.] There was a time they cared nothing for Ms. Vance, when their only experience of humanity was a crow … bar coming at them down a steel corridor. When I … plucked her from Black Mesa, I acted in the face of objections that she was a mere child and of no practical use to anyone. I have learned to ignore such nay-sayers [Dr. Breen briefly appears on the screen behind the G-Man] when quelling them … was out of the question. Still, I am not one to squander my investments, and I remain confident she was worth far more than the initial … appraisal. That's why I must now … extract from you some small … repayment … owed for your own survival. See her safely to White Forest, Dr. Freeman. I wish I could do more than keep an eye on you, but I have agreed to abide by certain … restrictions. [to Alyx] Well now, listen carefully, my dear. When you see your … father, relay these words: "prepare for unforeseen consequences".
 * [Alyx wakes up as the vision ends]

 * Rebel: [teaching a class about combat] So, ever used an AR2 [Overwatch Standard Issue Pulse Rifle] before?
 * Citizen: AR2? Nooo... Now, an AR3, … sure. Plenty of times.
 * Rebel: There's no such thing as an AR3.
 * Citizen: Well, see, in the city... the place was lousy with AR3s.
 * Rebel: No, it wasn't.
 * Citizen: Yes it was.
 * Rebel: No, it wa- [sighs] So, do you know what the alternative fire method does on the AR2 does? It kills Hunters. How did you city folk kill Hunters?
 * Citizen: We sure as hell didn't use guns. We would just wrestle Hunters to the ground with our bare hands! I use to kill ten-twenty a day, just using my fists.
 * Rebel: [incredulous] Oh, so, when you're out in the field you're going to be punching Hunters?
 * Citizen: In the field? I'm not going out in the field, I'm a radio operator!
 * Rebel: [groans] That's it, leave. You don't need to be here, and I'm not going to continue the lesson until you leave.
 * Citizen: I'm stayin' right here!
 * Rebel: I am serious. Leave. I'm not going to continue until you leave!

 * Eli Vance: [after Alyx relays the words G-man asked to say to him] "Unforeseen consequences". The last time I heard those words was back at Black Mesa. You had just stepped into the test chamber when he whispered them in my ear. You know who I'm talking about … our mutual friend. When he brought in that crystal, I knew I should have aborted that damn test … but I didn't. The whole world went to hell that day. And now … now he's using my little girl. Putting words in her mouth. Goddammit. I should have known when he rescued her, it was for his own damn reasons. Gordon, there's so much I need to tell you. Between us, we may finally have a chance of … [suddenly stops when he notices Alyx is back]

Half-Life: Alyx (2020)

 * G-Man: [upon completion of the game] Impressive work, Ms. Vance.
 * Alyx Vance: Gordon... Freeman?
 * G-Man: Gordon Freeman? [Chuckles] Ms. Vance, you wouldn't need all that to imprison Gordon Freeman.
 * Alyx Vance: So... who are you?
 * G-Man: Perhaps what I am is not as important as what I can offer you in exchange for coming all this way. Some believe the fate of our worlds is inflexible. My employers disagree. They authorize me to nudge things in a particular direction from time to time. What would you want nudged, Ms. Vance?
 * Alyx Vance: The Combine off Earth. I want the Combine off Earth.
 * G-Man: Ah, that would be a considerably large nudge. Too large, given the interests of my employers.
 * Alyx Vance: Well, you asked.
 * G-Man: What if I could offer you something you don't know you want?
 * [The player reaches out to grab the offered briefcase and the scene shifts to the final scene of Half-Life 2: Episode 2, where Eli Vance lays dying.]
 * Alyx Vance: ... Dad? Dad? What... I-Is that me? What is this? What's happening?
 * G-Man: We are in the future. This is the moment where you watch your father die. Unless...
 * Alyx Vance: What? Unless WHAT?
 * G-Man: Unless you were to take matters into your own hands.
 * [Time rewinds, showing the Advisor mortally wounding Eli before pausing a second before he is wounded.]
 * G-Man: Release your father, Ms. Vance.
 * [The player kills the advisor]
 * G-Man: Good. As a consequence of your action, this entity [Eli Vance] will continue and this entity [the Advisor] will not.
 * Alyx Vance: So... he's okay, right? He lives. My dad lives.
 * G-Man: You are aware that you've proven yourself to be of extraordinary value. [The G-Man materializes a crowbar in his hand] A previous hire has been unable – or unwilling – to perform the tasks laid before him. [A shadowed Gordon Freeman appears behind the G-Man as he steps aside] We have struggled to find a suitable replacement. Until now.
 * Alyx Vance: No! I-I-I just want to go home. Send me home!
 * [Gordon Freeman vanishes as the G-Man turns to walk away.]
 * G-Man: I'm afraid you misunderstand the situation, Ms. Vance.
 * [A white doorway opens and the G-Man leaves.]
 * Alyx Vance: Wait. Hey, wait, wait, wait!–

 * [A white void, after the credits finish.]
 * HEV Suit: Warning, vital signs critical. Seek medical attention.
 * Eli Vance: Gordon! Gordon! Wake up, Gordon!
 * [The scene shifts to the end of Episode 2, but where Alyx has saved her father. The player is now playing as Gordon Freeman.]
 * Eli Vance: She's gone, Gordon. She's gone. Son of a bitch and his "unforeseen consequences"!
 * [The G-Man, standing in the distance, turns and walks away.]
 * Eli Vance: I knew it. When I get my hands on him. I'm gonna...[Eli turns to watch the G-Man vanish into thin air] I'm gonna KILL him. I've got to figure this out. Right now...
 * [Dog jumps down from the hole in the ceiling and hands Eli a crowbar. Eli holds it out for the player to take.]
 * Eli Vance: Come on, Gordon. We've got work to do.

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Sarcasm

Sarcasm is a form of intelligence or sarcastic expression, often involving irony. the definition of sarcasm is: the use of humor.

Quotes

 * Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it.
 * Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (1833-1834), book II, ch. IV

 * Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
 * Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From the Underground (1864)

 * Sarcasm is the refuge of losers.
 * Richard Hoover, Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

 * Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on earth tolerable.
 * Nick Hornby, Songbook (2003)

 * Sarcasm: the last defense of the truly witless.
 * John G. Pollard, Letters (1981)

 * Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises, but it never cuts or pierces.
 * Rex Stout, as Nero Wolfe

 * Sarcasm is the refuge of a shallow mind.
 * Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo, NCIS (2005), season III, episode XII, "Boxed In"

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Carl Rowan

Carl Rowan (August 11, 1925 - September 23, 2000) columnist and former ambassador.

Quotes

 * [President Nixon], in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.
 * October 26, 1973 Washington Star article entitled "Has President Nixon Gone Crazy?"

 * We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). We can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession of a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail- period!
 * 1981 column.

 * David Brinkley: Suppose somebody was breaking into your house at night, and you didn't have a gun. Wouldn't you wish you had one? Sam Donaldson: No, I'd call the police immediately, I'd slam the doors, I'd cower under the bed, or in the closet... Brinkley: George? George Will: I'd call Carl Rowan.
 * exchange on This Week with David Brinkley, June 19, 1988.

 * Our country is wallowing in a miasma of political and class conflict, of greed and special interest, with regard to budget deficits, inflation and rising unemployment, the threats of both a bloody war and a devastating recession. How did we get into this mess?  Because the press, during the 1980s committed one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century. The media took a dive, caved in, and did not tell the American people the price they would eventually pay for Reaganomics.
 * while accepting the Allen H. Neuharth Award for Excellence in Journalism from the University of South Dakota in 1990.

 * Clarence Thomas is the best only at his ability to bootlick for Ronald Reagan and George Bush... They didn't pick him because he was black. They picked him because he's a black conservative. And the thing that bothers me about his appointment -- if they had put David Duke on, I wouldn't scream as much because they would look at David Duke and reject him for what he is. If you gave Clarence Thomas a little flour on his face, you'd think you had David Duke talking.
 * Inside Washington, July 7, 1991.

 * You don't really talk about it in terms of the U.N., you talk about it in terms of the United States and the Soviet Union. If you cannot, by diplomacy, bring the Soviet Union into an alliance with the U.S. to stop this situation it is not going to be stopped.
 * Inside Washington, March 6, 1993.

 * Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.
 * Inside Washington, March 20, 1993.

 * Unless Gingrich and Dole and the Republicans say, ‘Am I inflaming a bunch of nuts?’, you know we're going to have some more events (like the Oklahoma City bombing). I am absolutely certain the harsher rhetoric of the Gingriches and the Doles … creates a climate of violence in America.
 * April 25, 1995 Washington Post.

"The Coming Race War in America: A Wake-up Call" (1996)

 * A lot of the blood of America's race war victims will be on the hands and bloated bodies of Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern.

 * (Ronald Reagan is) the President who is more responsible than any for the fact that white racism is both tolerated and even fashionable again in America.

 * for every Farrakhan who riles and poisons black America, there are twenty white bigots who seek to take us into organized murder and mayhem.

 * (the effort to abolish affirmative action) is led mostly by conscienceless politicians, publicity-seeking bigots, whites with individual gripes who find it easy to make trouble in a litigious society, and a handful of blacks who harbor doubts about their own intellectual merits.

 * (If America abandons affirmative action, the country will take a giant step towards race war because there are) armies of raging blacks and furious Hispanics who would go ballistic over effectuation of the proposed campaigns to roll back the meager gains that nonwhites have made in America during a cruel century.

 * The Federal courts . . . surrendered to racist mob psychology as cravenly as any law officer ever did in the Reconstruction South under pressure from a lynch mob. Suddenly, mass bigotry was more dominant in the so called halls of justice in 1995 than it had been in 1955.

 * probably 95 percent of ‘white’ Americans have some ‘Negroid blood.’

 * (T)he upsurge of violent racism in armed groups in America involves more than the United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. It now includes every police force in any city and county in America, the National Guard, federal agencies, and even some private ‘protective’ groups.

On the OJ Simpson Trial:

 * I knew that the stories of the two murders would immediately grab the glands of millions of American white men, prejudicing them in ways they would never admit publicly. . . . (It) would enliven the insecurities of millions of white male psyches. The old college girl's chant, “Once you go black you never go back!” surely would take on feverish new meaning.

 * A black friend of morbid wit said to me, ‘Doesn't O.J. know that we can f*** 'em now but we still can't kill 'em?’ . ..

 * Black people would in private say that Nicole was ‘white trash,’ using her blond hair, her big breasts, her teenage pussy to woo a famous, rich, middle-aged black man away from the black woman who had sustained and nurtured him through the toughest years of his life.

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Management

Management in all business and human organization activity is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organization (a group of one or more people or entities) or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal.

A

 * In the home of the religious man, ... those who command serve those whom they appear to rule—because, of course, they do not command out of lust to domineer, but out of a sense of duty—not out of pride like princes but out of solicitude like parents.
 * Augustine, City of God, chapter 14

B

 * In 1972, Americans watched in disbelief as the Nixon Presidency was virtually brought to collapse, not because of the Watergate "break-in," but by the cover-up and its entanglements. What if the Watergate Scandal had been handled differently? The illegal activities of a few bungling second-story men pale in comparison to the colossal management blunders by the White House inner circle.
 * Wheeler L. Baker, Crisis Management: A Model for Managers (1993), p. 3

 * Poorly managed corporations, disorganized businesses, and badly led service agencies experience crisis daily and most will eventually fail. In contrast, the danger is to well organized, smooth running institutions that may not recognize a building crisis. Too often, sound organizations rely on their normal modus operandi to pull them through a crisis. It might. But at what cost? And what if it does not pull them through?
 * Wheeler L. Baker, Crisis Management: A Model for Managers (1993), p. 6

 * You can say this for Senior Management: it knows how to articulate a goal. The strategy may be fuzzy, the execution nonexistent, but Senior Management knows what it wants.
 * Max Barry, Company (2006), ISBN 0-385-51439-5, p. 54

 * The departments don’t report the problem because a good manager knows the only reason to call Senior Management, ever, is to deliver good news. People who ring Senior Management with problems do not have much of a future at Zephyr Holdings. Senior Management is not there to hold departmental hands. It is there to dispense stock options.
 * Max Barry, Company (2006), ISBN 0-385-51439-5, p. 71

 * There are two ways of looking at Senior Management. One is that it’s a tightly integrated team tirelessly pulling together in the service of whatever’s best for the company. The other is that it’s a dog pack of power-hungry egomaniacs who occasionally assist Zephyr as a side effect of their individual campaigns for wealth and status. Nobody believes the tightly knit team theory anymore. Once, a long time ago, it may have been true, but the instant a dog-pack person made it into Senior Management, it was all over. It’s like a fox getting into the chicken house; pretty soon there are only foxes and feathers. If Senior Management ever was ever made up of selfless individuals who put teamwork ahead of self-interest—and this is a big if—they were long ago torn to pieces.
 * Max Barry, Company (2006), ISBN 0-385-51439-5, pp. 180-181

 * Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling software development costs.
 * Barry Boehm (1981) Software Engineering Economics; as cited in: Tyson Gill (2002) Planning Smarter: Creating Blueprint-Quality Software Specifications. p. 14

 * Understanding the concept of competency is a prerequisite to understanding his integrated model of management.
 * Richard Boyatzis (1982) Competent Manager: A Model for Effective Performance. p. 10

 * An intelligent man neither allows himself to be controlled nor attempts to control others; he wishes reason alone to rule, and that always.
 * Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères (1688), “Of the Affections,” #71

 * Managements are frequently more conscious of what numbers they want to report than they are of what has actually transpired in a given quarter or a given year.
 * Warren Buffett, (quote at of 1:10:23 of 4:40:55)

C

 * Management’s never been interested in really doing the job, not at any point in human history. Management’s true agenda has always been making things more pleasant for Management.
 * Adam-Troy Castro, Emissaries from the Dead (2008), ISBN 978-0-06-144372-5, p. 57

 * Middle management has always favored underlings friendly to middle management. It’s corruption, all right, but of a minor and probably unavoidable sort.
 * Adam-Troy Castro, Emissaries from the Dead (2008), ISBN 978-0-06-144372-5, p. 202

 * ... Rockefeller was capable of extraordinary ferocity in compelling submission from competitors. He might starve out obdurate firms by buying all available barrels on the market or monopolize local tank cars to paralyze their operations. Yet Rockefeller didn't apply this pressure lightly and preferred patience and reason—if possible—to terror. He was not only purchasing refineries but assembling a managerial team. The creation of Standard Oil was often less a matter of stamping out competitors than of seducing them into cooperation. In general, Rockefeller was so eager to retain original management that he accumulated expensive deadwood on the payroll and, for the sake of intraempire harmony, preferred to be conciliatory.
 * Ron Chernow,

 * OECONOMY, a certain Order in the Management of a Family and domestick Affairs: Hence the Word Oeconomist, for a good Manager. But Oeconomy may be taken in a more extensive Sense, for a just, prudent, and regular Conduct in all the Parts of Life, and relative Capacities. But as for the Word Oeconomicus (Oeconomist) it was formerly used for the Executor of a Last Will and Testament, and the Person that had the Oeconomy and fiduciary Disposal of the Deceased's Goods.
 * Noel Chomel, Richard Bradley (1725) Dictionaire oeconomique: or, The Family Dictionary, Cited in Karen Harvey (2012) The Little Republic p. 38

 * I compared some passages of articles of [ Robert McNamara ] in the late 1960s, speeches, on management and the necessity of management, how a well-managed society controlled from above was the ultimate in freedom. The reason is if you have really good management and everything's under control and people are told what to do, under those conditions, he said, man can maximize his potential. I just compared that with standard Leninist views on vanguard parties, which are about the same. About the only difference is that McNamara brought God in, and I suppose Lenin didn't bring God in. He brought Marx in.
 * Noam Chomsky (1995) Class Warfare,

 * It is better to first get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats, and then figure out where to drive.
 * Jim C. Collins (2001). Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't p. 41.

 * The most effective leaders of companies in transition are the quiet, unassuming people whose inner wiring is such that the worst circumstances bring out their best. They're unflappable, they're ready to die if they have to. But you can trust that, when bad things are happening, they will become clearheaded and focused.
 * Jim C. Collins (2001) attributed in: Strategy & business. No 22-25. p. 46

 * You can't manage knowledge – nobody can. What you can do is to manage the environment in which knowledge can be created, discovered, captured, shared, distilled, validated, transferred, adopted, adapted and applied.
 * Chris Collison and Geoff Parcell, Learning to Fly - Practical Knowledge Management from Leading and Learning Organizations (2005), Chapter 2, pages 24-25.

 * Management is the most noble of professions if it’s practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team.
 * Clayton M. Christensen (2011) in: Harvard Business Review (2011) HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself. p. 4

D

 * The scientific study of leadership in complex organizations, as an area of enquiry in its own right, is relatively new; hardly more than a decade old. As in any new "science" there is yet no comprehensive framework within which to operate. Unlike medical men after Harvey's great discovery on the circular system of the human body, we have no unifying concepts around which to make further refinements and discoveries.
 * Ernest Dale modestly recognizes this fact. In The Great Organizers he takes the position that before we proceed too far in theory it is first necessary to known the history and the terrain of the subject. His vehicle is the case history in depth; his method is the comparative historical approach, not deduction based on a comprehensive model.
 * Robert H. Guest. "Reviewed Work: The Great Organizers by Ernest Dale," Technology and Culture, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Summer, 1962), pp. 349-351

 * The causes usually cited for failure of a company are costs of start-up, overruns on costs, depreciation of excess inventory, competition—anything but the actual cause, pure and simple bad management.
 * W. Edwards Deming, (1st edition 1982)

 * The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!
 * W. Edwards Deming (1993, p. 54) cited in: Melanie M. Minarik (2008) Building Knowledge Through Sensemaking. p. 13

 * Much is said about scientific management of work. It is a narrow view which restricts the science which secures efficiency of operation to movements of the muscles. The chief opportunity for science is the discovery of the relations of a man to his work — including his relations to others who take part — which will enlist his intelligent interest in what he is doing. Efficiency in production often demands division of labor. But it is reduced to mechanical routine unless workers see the technical, intellectual, and social relationships involved in what they do, and engage in their work because of the motivation furnished by such perceptions. The tendency to reduce such things as efficiency of activity and scientific management to purely technical externals is evidence of the one-sided stimulation of thought given to those in control of industry — those who supply its aims. Because of their lack of all-round and well-balanced social interest, there is not sufficient stimulus for attention to the human factors and relationships in industry. Intelligence is narrowed to the factors concerned with technical production and marketing of goods. No doubt, a very acute and intense intelligence in these narrow lines can be developed, but the failure to take into account the significant social factors means none the less an absence of mind, and a corresponding distortion of emotional life.
 * John Dewey (1916) Democracy and Education, section seven: Implications of Human Association

 * Mission is at the heart of what you do as a team. Goals are merely steps to its achievement.  Mission has an eternal quality.  Goals are time bound and once achieved, are replaced by others.
 * Patrick Dixon (2005) Building a Better Business - the key to management, marketing and motivation. p. 66

 * Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution.
 * Peter Drucker (1973) MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices p. 6

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 * The administrative function has many duties. It has to foresee and make preparations to meet the financial, commercial, and technical conditions under which the concern must be started and run. It deals with the organization, selection, and management of the staff. It is the means by which the various parts of the undertaking communicate with the outside world, etc. Although this list is incomplete, it gives us an idea of the importance of the administrative function. The sole fact that it is in charge of the staff makes it in most cases the predominant function, for we all know that, even if a firm has perfect machinery and manufacturing processes, it is doomed to failure if it is run by an inefficient staff.
 * Henri Fayol, (1900) Henri Fayol addressed his colleagues in the mineral industry 23 June 1900

 * To manage is to forecast and plan, to organize, co-ordinate and to control.
 * Henri Fayol (1916) cited in: Gerald A. Cole (2003) Management theory and practice. p. 6

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 * If management can identify the negatives of its preferred option, the other policies around the star model can be designed to counter the negatives while achieving the positives.
 * Jay R. Galbraith (2002), Designing organizations: an executive guide to strategy, structure, and process. p. 15

 * Administration has to do with getting things done; with the accomplishment of defined objectives. The science of administration is thus the system of knowledge whereby men may understand relationships, predict results, and influence outcomes in any situation where men are organized at work together for a common purpose.
 * Luther H. Gulick, "Science, values and public administration." Papers on the Science of Administration (1937), p. 189

 * At the present time administration is more an art than a science; in fact there are those who assert dogmatically that it can never be anything else. They draw no hope from the fact that metallurgy, for example, was completely an art several centuries before it became primarily a science and commenced its great forward strides after generations of intermittent advance and decline.
 * Luther H. Gulick, "Science, values and public administration." Papers on the Science of Administration (1937), p. 189

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 * Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human activity. Like cooking, it rests on a degree of organisation and on adequate resources. But just as no two chefs run their kitchens the same way, so no two managements are the same.
 * Robert Heller (1972) The Naked Manager p. 12

 * You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.
 * Grace Hopper (1987), quoted in "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper" by Philip Schieber, OCLC Newsletter, No. 167 (March/April 1987)

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 * The Lord enters into judgment
 * against the elders and leaders of his people:
 * “It is you who have ruined my vineyard;
 * the plunder from the poor is in your houses.
 * What do you mean by crushing my people
 * and grinding the faces of the poor?”
 * Isaiah 3:14-15 NIV

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 * Management is defined here as the accomplishment of desired objectives by establishing an environment favorable to performance by people operating in organized groups. Each of the managerial functions (planning, organizing, staffing,, directing, and controlling) is analyzed and described in a systematic way. As this is done, both the distilled experience of practicing managers and the findings of scholars are presented. This is approached in such a way that the reader may grasp the relationships between each of the functions, obtain a clear view of the major principles underlying them.
 * Harold Koontz and Cyril O'Donnell. Principles of Management; An Analysis of Managerial Functions. 1968, p. 1

M

 * Belief in managerial expertise is then, on the view I have taken,very like what belief in God was thought to be by Carnap and Ayer. It is one more illusion and a peculiarly modern one, the illusion of a power not ourselves that claims to make for righteousness.
 * Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue (1981), p. 107

 * In the social world of corporations and governments private preferences are advanced under the cover of identifying the presence or absence of the findings of experts. ... The effects of eighteenth-century prophecy have been to produce not scientifically managed social control, but a skillful dramatic imitation of such control. It is histrionic success which gives power and authority in our culture. The most effective bureaucrat is the best actor.
 * Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue (1981), p. 107

 * Mass production and mass distribution claim the entire individual, and industrial psychology has long since ceased to be confined to the factory. The manifold processes of introjection seem to be ossified in almost mechanical reactions. The result is, not adjustment but mimesis: an immediate identification of the individual with his society and, through it, with the society as a whole. This immediate, automatic identification (which may have been characteristic of primitive forms of association) reappears in high industrial civilization; its new “immediacy,” however, is the product of a sophisticated, scientific management and organization. In this process, the “inner” dimension of the mind in which opposition to the status quo can take root is whittled down. The loss of this dimension, in which the power of negative thinking—the critical power of Reason—is at home, is the ideological counterpart to the very material process in which advanced industrial society silences and reconciles the opposition. The impact of progress turns Reason into submission to the facts of life, and to the dynamic capability of producing more and bigger facts of the same sort of life. The efficiency of the system blunts the individuals' recognition that it contains no facts which do not communicate the repressive power of the whole. If the individuals find themselves in the things which shape their life, they do so, not by giving, but by accepting the law of things—not the law of physics but the law of their society.
 * Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man (1964), pp. 9-11

 * The rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. It will not be so among you; but whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be your slave; just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve.
 * Jesus as reported by Matthew 20:25-27

 * A superintendent of a road fifty miles in length can give its business his professional attention and may be constantly on the line engaged in the direction of its details; each person is personally known to him, and all questions in relation to its business are at once presented and acted upon; and any system however imperfect may under such circumstances prove comparatively successful.  In the government of a five hundred miles in length a very different state exists. Any system which might be applicable to the business and extent of a short road would be found entirely inadequate to the wants of a long one. and I am fully convinced that in the want of system perfect in its details, properly adapted and vigilantly enforced, lies the true secret of their [the large roads’] failure; and that this disparity of cost per mile in operating long and short roads, is not produced by a difference in length, but is in proportion to the perfection of the system adopted.
 * Daniel McCallum (1855). cited in: Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1962). Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise. p. 21-22

 * Strategy making needs to function beyond the boxes to encourage the informal learning that produces new perspectives and new combinations... Once managers understand this, they can avoid other costly misadventures caused by applying formal techniques, without judgement and intuition, to problem solving.
 * Henry Mintzberg, Mintzberg (1994), (partly) cited in Douglas C. Eadie (1997) Changing by design: a practical approach to leading innovation in nonprofit organizations . p. 128

 * A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
 * Akio Morita (1987). Made in Japan, p. 149

 * The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
 * Akio Morita (1987). Made in Japan, p. 154

 * Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
 * Akio Morita (1987). Made in Japan, p. 168

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 * While the agricultural estate might foreshadow some of the methods used later in the factories, the industrial 'domestic system ' was often a more immediate ancestor.
 * (1968) The genesis of modern management: : a study of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. p. 42; Partly cited in: Le Texier, Thibault. "The first systematized uses of the term “management” in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." Journal of Management History 19.2 (2013): 189-224.

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 * The brutality of a man purely motivated by monetary considerations … often does not appear to him at all as a moral delinquency, since he is aware only of a rigorously logical behavior, which draws the objective consequences of the situation.
 * Georg Simmel, “Domination,” On Individuality and Social Forms (1971), p. 110

 * Administration is not unlike play-acting. The task of the good actor is to know and play his role, although different roles may differ greatly in content. The effectiveness of the performance will depend on the effectiveness of the play and the effectiveness with which it is played. The effectiveness of the administrative process will vary with the effectiveness of the organization and the effectiveness with which its members play their parts.
 * Herbert Simon (1947) Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision-Making Processes in Administrative Organization. p. 252

 * In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.
 * Adam Smith (1776) The Wealth of Nations Chapter VIII, p. 80

 * We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of the workman. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject.
 * Adam Smith (1776) The Wealth of Nations Chapter VIII, p. 80 Chapter VIII, p. 80

 * Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.
 * Sun Tzu (c. 6th century BC) The Art of War

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 * In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men are not needed. On the contrary, the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men.
 * Frederick Winslow Taylor (1911) Principles of Scientific Management. p. 2

 * Management is a distinct process consisting of planning, organizing, actuating and controlling, performed to determine and accomplish the objectives by the use of people and resources.
 * George R. Terry, Principles of Management, R.D. Irwin, 1960; 6th ed. 1977, p. 4

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 * Wherever human activities are carried out in an organised and co-operative form, there management must be found.
 * Lyndall Urwick and Brech (1949) The Making Of Scientific Management, Vol II, p. 216: Cited in Thibault (2013; p. 191)

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 * Administration is the most obvious part of government; it is government in action; it is the executive, the operative, the most visible side of government, and is of course as old as government itself.
 * Woodrow Wilson, "The Study of Administration," Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 2 (June, 1887), pp. 197-222.

 * Management as an activity has always existed to make people’s desires through organized effort. Management facilitates the efforts of people in organized groups and arises when people seek to cooperate to achieve goals.
 * Daniel A. Wren and Arthur G. Bedeian. The evolution of management thought, 1972, p. 11-12

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Thanks for your work on Paul Graham. I've added a cleanup tag, because it does not comply with the standard personal quote page formatting. Please see Templates/People for the standard formatting. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 03:09, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

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Norman Rockwell

Norman Percevel Rockwell (3 February 1894 – 8 November 1978) was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades.

Quotes

 * The View of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and the ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be. (Somebody once said that I paint the kind of girls your mother would want you to marry.)
 * Norman Rockwell, My Adventures As An Illustrator : An Autobiography (1979), p 24

 * Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller.
 * As quoted in Fodor's New England (2008) by Debbie Harmsen, p. 194

 * I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.
 * As quoted in A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography (1978) by Donald Walton, p. 61

 * Gary LaCoste had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out.
 * As quoted in A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography (1978) by Donald Walton, p. 198

 * The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
 * As quoted in A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography (1978) by Donald Walton, p. 251

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I believe the article has an acceptable standard of quality, format-speaking, as it is (though it sure needs more of Graham's quotes). I tried looking at other famous essayist's pages for a precedent but I found nothing particularly worthy of imitation. George Orwell's page, for instance, which can be said to follow the People Template to the letter, seems to me quite confusing and disorderly at the essay quotes at the beginning. They would be far more approachable and useful, grouped by essays as I did here, methinks. Eliazar 09:39, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm sorry, but the article is still a mess. Here are a few problems I've identified:
 * 1. The introduction is way too heavy on the wikilink. Not every single word needs to be linked.
 * 2. Grouping by essays is fine, but if you want to group, use headers, and under each header order quotes by placement in essay. Alternatively, group by essay but put the essay in "**" under each quote, and order by date of essay, and within an essay by order in essay. The "compromise" chosen. In that case, the first mention of the essay should be a link to the essay, with the others just naming it.
 * Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 13:01, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for your interest and suggestions, I tried to act on them. Please tell me if you still have more suggestions or if there are still outstanding problems. Eliazar 21:21, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Excellent work! I've removed the cleanup tag, the article looks much better now. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 02:50, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

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 * I actually worry a lot that as I get "popular" I'll be able to get away with saying stupider stuff than I would have dared say before. This sort of thing happens to a lot of people, and I would really like to avoid it.
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Hari Punja

Hari Punja, OF, OBE (born 1936) is an Indian businessman and Chairman of Hari Punja Group of Companies in Fiji.

Interview with World Investment News, 21 January 2003 (excerpts)

 * I would never be involved in an illegal activity. I believe I was related to the coup because I was criticising the Chaudry Government. When Chaudry became Prime Minister he was very unfair to my companies, infrastructure wise, and I was taking him to court and to the media. In the midst of this the coup happened. Mr Qarase, who became the Prime Minister, was previously Assistant Chairman of one of my companies where I was the Chairman. These were the reasons that have caused the rumours. Yes, I did not like the Chaudry government but no, I was not related to the coup plot.
 * on rumours that he had helped to finance the coup d'état fronted by George Speight in May 2000

 * I think that we (Indo-Fijians) have a great future in this country if we can grab the opportunities that are ahead of us.

 * Indo-Fijians have a good future in Fiji but unfortunately they are being ill-advised, their community leaders lack good leadership.

Interview with the Fiji Times, 25 September 2005 (excerpts)

 * I went to a Harvard seminar in Sydney recently and the name of the seminar was 'Family businesses: successes and pitfalls'. The lecturer there said a typical family business is one where the founder starts it, the second generation builds it up and the third generation blows it up. Now there is a lot of truth in that.''

 * In business I believe the idea is to look for opportunities and if you do what others are doing you will never succeed.

 * I like to look for hard entries. If the entry level is easy then everybody comes in and competes with you and the country has no shortage of copycats.

 * My strategy has always been do something that is hard to follow.

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“ The truth is only sad when it is irreversible” Serrat

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Simon Cowell

Simon Philip Cowell (born 7 October 1959) is a British A & R (artist and repertoire) executive for BMG Records. He is probably best known as a judge on the television programs The X-Factor and American Idol.

2000s

 * Very simple. I'm putting up the money, and I also have ears.
 * On Americans who question his right to judge Americans since he is British
 * Quoted in Bill Keveney, "Viewers 'Idol'-ize this saucy search for a superstar," USA Today (18 June 2002)

 * The host is pathetic! The show is pathetic! The audience is pathetic!
 * On the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards
 * Quoted in "MTV hypefest turns into snoozer", originally published in the Chicago Sun-Times, August 30 2002

 * You know Paula, who I couldn't look at the beginning of the series... I love her to death now. I hate to admit it but I do.
 * Quoted on Entertainment Tonight (21 May 2003)

 * Sinitta and Jackie are my family now. I don't think of them as ex-girlfriends anymore. They are an extension of my life... It must be infuriating, but I'd never change because my ex-girlfriends are so close I couldn't imagine life without them.
 * Quoted in mirror.co.uk interview (22 October 2005)

 * Normally, they want me to be rude to them. People come up to me and sing, and I say "That was great. Thank you." And they're like "Well, aren't you going to be rude to me?" No! When I miss auditions, contestants get upset that I'm not there, because they expect me to be cruel to them — it's some sort of badge of honor. That's how crazy everything is.
 * Quoted in interview, Playboy magazine (February 2007)

 * If I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I'm pleasant, but the parts when I'm obnoxious.
 * Quoted in interview, Playboy magazine (February 2007)

2010s

 * I changed my diet and I’ve not looked back since. You feel better, you look better. I cut out a lot of the stuff I shouldn’t have been eating and that was primarily meat, dairy, wheat, sugar — those were the four main things. … Once you get into a pattern I’ve found it quite enjoyable. It has helped me sleep and I wake up feeling less tired. I noticed a massive difference in how I felt in about a week. I have more energy and focus and it wasn’t difficult. I don’t like to use the word diet because that’s the reason I never went on a diet before — the word diet makes me miserable.
 * Quoted in "Meat-loving Simon Cowell reveals he’s gone VEGAN as he turns 60 this year", thesun.co.uk (23 April 2019)

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