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Acquisition, Ira Steven Behr

Never pay more for an acquisition than you have to. - Ira Steven Behr, Rule #3, The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition (1995)

Action, B.C. Forbes

The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman, the prizes will be for those who most effectively exert their brains, who take deep, earnest and studious counsel of their minds, who stamp themselves as thinkers. - B.C. Forbes http://thoughts.forbes.com/thoughts/b-c-forbes

Theology, Archibald Alexander

All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass — "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners." - Archibald Alexander, p. 580. Quote in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895). http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theology

Grass, Francis Bacon

Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn. - Francis Bacon, Essays (1625), "Of Gardens".

Compassion, Benjamin Disraeli

Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend. Remember that when you do so, you apologize for truth. - Benjamin Disraeli, in Contarini Fleming : A Psychological Autobiography (1832), p. 45; sometimes paraphrased: "Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Compassion

Internet, William R. Cheswick

The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back. I don't need hammers and bombs to get in when I can walk in through the door. - William R. Cheswick, quoted in Joshua Quittner, "Cracks in the net", Time Feb. 27, 1995

Winter, German Proverb

One crow does not make a winter. - German Proverb 까마귀 한 마리가 겨울을 만들지는 않는다. - 독일속담