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Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

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It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

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Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

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The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

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Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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