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- If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.
- Soichiro Honda
- That's a hell of an ambition, to be mellow. It's like wanting to be senile.
- Randy Newman on middle of the road music
- Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
- John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
- You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.
- William Randolph Hearst, to Frederic Remington
- It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The [Interstate Commerce] commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.
- Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president
- American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - all communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile.
- Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame
- For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.
- Herbert Schiller
- Can women imagine anything finer than to experience centuries and millennia with the beloved husband in a cozy home in reverent attention to the inner workings of creative motherhood?
- Curt Rosten, "The ABC's of National Socialism," 1933
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