They weren't wearing insignia.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.