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It definitely makes the company leaner and more efficient. But at the computing company that's left, there's still a great deal of work to be done.


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SAMUEL BUTLER The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
SAMUEL BUTLER He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods
SAMUEL BUTLER To be at all is to be religious more or less
SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his ...
SAMUEL BUTLER One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underg...
SAMUEL BUTLER A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to ...
SAMUEL BUTLER The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
SAMUEL BUTLER We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.
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