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"Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute."
"I was planning to remain an amateur for a while."
"I love the fact British men act cool whatever the situation so I'm planning to recruit there."
"I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor."
"I'm like the queen of planning and scheduling and I'm trying very hard to stop it."
"The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning."
"Keep dreaming, wishing and planning. There's immeasurable power in it."
"The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning."
"The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow."
"Establishing a client state in Iraq would significantly enhance that strategic power, a matter of great significance for the future. As Zbigniew Brzezinski observed, it would provide the US with "critical leverage" of its European and Asian rivals, a conception with roots in early post-war planning. These are substantial reasons for aggression - not unlike those of the British when they invaded and occupied Iraq over 80 years earlier, at the dawn of the oil age."
"Stephen Colbert's recent comment is apropos: When the Republican legislature of North Carolina responded to a scientific study predicting a threatening rise in sea level by barring state and local agencies from developing regulations or planning documents to address the problem, Colbert responded: "This is a brilliant solution. If your science gives you a result that you don't like, pass a law saying the result is illegal. Problem solved.""
"Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest."
"Life happens whilst you're planning other things."
"I'm pretty much always planning two albums ahead."
"I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning."
"I do a lot of planning and plotting. That's my greatest weakness. If I'm not terribly careful, I'll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried."
