Archeology Crime Unit - Harrison Marshall Maddock
Complilation of quotes commonly used by Maddock for your enjoyment. He did not write these but swears by them. Employees, please refrain from writing these on the restroom walls... the maintenance staff is getting quite upset.
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The greater the technology, the greater need for invoking the mightiest
power of all - that of the brain. The brain is the only tool equally
available to every sentient being - and their only choice is whether or not to use it.
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"Will Rogers said: Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run
over if you just sit there. I say, get your ass moving before I run you over!"
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The road to success is always under construction.... Meet the challenge.
The road to success is also dotted with many tempting parking spaces. Beware."
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"Someday we'll look back on this moment... and plow into a parked car."
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"One should keep old roads and old friends"
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"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain."
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"The limits of any language are the limits of the mind..."
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"Character cannot be developed by sitting on your ass and drinking
the night away. Only by getting your asses
shot at and off will you build what we call *character* - makes you
stronger, gives imagination a little bit of a push, ambition something
of a jump-start... or as some great philosopher once said - what doesn't
kill you makes you stronger and all that."
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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
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"Character is like a fence - It cannot be strengthened by whitewash."
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"Following the path of least resistance is what makes rivers and men crooked."
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"Efficiency is intelligent laziness."
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"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."
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"All generalizations are dangerous, even this one."
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"Way back on Earth in the 1600s Galileo revolutionized science, became
the father of physics and astronomy - but what he should have been
famours for are these words: "I do not feel obliged to believe that
the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect
has intended us to forgo their use."
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"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards
could produce the complete works of Shakespeare;
Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."
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"You can't learn anything with your mouth open."
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"If we only spoke the truth based on cold hard fact instead of
assumptions, suspicion, opinion, or envy, we would speak a lot less."
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"If you're going to let words come into play, Say what you mean, and
mean what you say."
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"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
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"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."
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"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing."
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"Practice doesn't make perfect, nor is it supposed to. Practice is about
increasing your repertoire of ways to recover from your mistakes."
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"Anyone can make mistakes. Fools insist on repeating them."
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"Freedom to be your best means nothing unless you're willing to do your best."
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"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning."
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"The secret to success is focus of purpose."
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"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
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"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;
It is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
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"Success comes in cans;
Failure comes in can'ts."
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"Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
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"Success is simply a matter of luck: Ask any failure."
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"Nothing ventured, Nothing gained."
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"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't."
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"Things are only impossible until they're not."
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"Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view."
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"All sunshine all the time sometimes results in a desert."
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"You haven't truly lost until you quit trying."
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"Failure is not when you fall down; It's when you don't get up."
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"If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off
than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded."
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"A person can make many mistakes, but he isn't a failure until he starts
blaming someone else."
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"He who is good at making excuses is seldom good for anything else."
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"People don't plan to fail; They just fail to plan...Plan your work,
then work your plan."
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"The best way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody
else's rules, while quietly playing by your own."
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"Life is 10% of what happens to you, and 90% of how you respond to it."
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"...So what big-time crisis were you worried about this time last year?"
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"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space."
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"When the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change,
then we change."
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"We cannot change the direction of the wind... but we can adjust our sails."
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"Passion is the wind that moves your sails; Reason is the rudder that
guides your course."
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"A ship docked is safe, but that's not what ships were made for."
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"It is one thing to steer a ship, another to understand a map"
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"Adventure: The land between entertainment and panic."
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"Passion without purity is wildness, Purity without passion is prudishness."
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"There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done
unless *you* do it."
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"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Virtue is doing it."
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"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."
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"You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be..."
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"When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look so long and
so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones that are open for us."
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"A window of opportunity will not open itself."
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
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"People with small minds talk about people. People with average minds
talk about events. People with great minds talk about ideas."
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"Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation."
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"History is philosophy learned from examples."
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"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given you."
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"Time is the best teacher; Unfortunately it kills all its students."
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"If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done."
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"Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days
I've stayed alive."
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"You don't stop laughing because you grow old; You grow old because you
stop laughing."
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"Light travels faster than sound; That is why some people appear bright
until you hear them speak."
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Wisdom has two parts:
1). Having a lot to say
2). Not saying it all
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"Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side."
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"Three men there are of some regard: a king, a harper, and a bard."
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"Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled
to the utterly bewildered."
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"I've lowered my expectations to the point where they've already been met."
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"Snowmen fall from the sky unassembled."
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"I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian."
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"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the
credit."
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"Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and let them
surprise you with their results."
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"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a
closed room with a mosquito...."
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"Here's my strategy on the War... We win, they lose."
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"The most terrifying words are: 'I'm from the government,
and I'm here to help'."
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"Government is like a baby... an alimentary canal with a big appetite at
one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
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"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a
government program."
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"Government's view of the economy
could be summed up in a few short phrases:
If it moves, tax it.
If it keeps moving, regulate it.
And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
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"Politics is not a bad profession.
If you succeed there are many rewards,
if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book."
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"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
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"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few
virtues."
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"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do."
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"I've had thousands and thousands of problems in my life, and most of
them never even happened."
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"It takes years to build up trust, yet it only takes suspicion, not
proof, to destroy it."
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"The reason that people cling to their hate so stubbornly
is because they are afraid that if they let go of the hate,
they will have to deal with pain."
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"Some people try to find fault like there is a reward for finding it."
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"If you don't control your mind, someone else will."
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"Pain is inevitable; misery, a choice."
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"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
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"Be careful what rut you choose; You may be in it the rest of your life."
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"When I hear somebody sigh 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask,
'Compared to what?' "
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