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It was one thing to talk about the possibility, quite another to discover the reality.
“Minds together in the gutter, forever.”
If there was a hell, it was in sales.
“Don’t make the common mistake of thinking your opponents are stupid just because they don’t see things your way,
“Why does everyone always want to take over the world? I’ve never understood that. It sounds like a horrible job.
“In the long term, it would make more sense.” “People don’t think in the long term.”
“I didn’t do it, nobody saw me, and you can’t prove it anyway.”
But apparently it’s our fault, like we adjusted the gravity meter badly. And the sun is too bright, the clouds are too dark, the bugs are too buggy, the hills are too hilly…”
There was a point where following orders didn’t cut it.
“Once the fight is over, everyone bleeds the same color.
Some people just seemed to want to display their power by defining what others could or couldn’t do.
Shift your schedule and you simply shift the nature of the bottleneck.
“So, you’re doing things the hard way, because you’re too lazy to figure out how to do them the easy way?
“Ah, the good old days,” I replied. “When things were simpler, kids were more respectful, and we had to walk to school through six feet of snow.” “Barefoot.” “Uphill.” “Both ways.”
there comes a point where you can’t be the one always doing the accommodating.
Family. Good, bad, or nasty, you had to deal with them.
We lost 90% of our ships, and I don’t know if we have enough busters and bombs left at this point to hold off a Girl Scout troop.
