His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success--or the most to lose from failure.

Michael Crichton
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  1. No one escapes from life alive.

  2. Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

  3. Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants.

  4. The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.

  5. You can't get decent Mexican food in DC.

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