In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.
William J. Clinton
"I stick my neck out for nobody."
— Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) , Casablanca (1942)
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
Ronald Reagan broke his thighbone in six different places when he slid into first base at a celebrity baseball game.
Reagan's favorite sport was horseback riding.
The 1990-91 edition of "Who's Who in America" contained 10 lines about former president Ronald Reagan. There were 28 lines devoted to his wife, Nancy.
Ronald Reagan was the only president to have ever worn a NAZI uniform. (He wore it as an actor in a movie.)
You are on a ship, over the side hangs a rope ladder with half meter rungs. The tide rises a half meter per hour. At the end of five hours, how much of the ladder will remain above the water assuming that nine rungs were above the water when the tide began to rise?
It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
