Rise above principal and do what’s right.
JOSEPH HELLERWhat do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.
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I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.
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There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.
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I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
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There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
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What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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Where were you born?” “On a battlefield,” [Yossarian] answered. “No, no. In what state were you born?” “In a state of innocence.
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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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