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- Before emphasizing what I believe, perhaps I should point out what I do not believe, or what I no longer believe: I no longer believe in the magic of the spoken word. It signifies not order but disorder. It does not eliminate chaos, it only conceals it. It no longer carries men's hopes but distorts them. It has ceased to be a vehicle, only to become an obstacle. It does not signify sharing but compromise.
- Elie Weisel, From the Kingdom of Memory
- I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- All last year we tried to teach him English, and the only word he learned was million.
- Tommy Lasorda, on pitcher Fernando Valenzuela
- The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
- Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990
- I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior.
- Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason
- Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone
- John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
- I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
- Shirley Temple (1928 - )
- A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- ...Clean up complexion, soften eye lines, soften smile line, add color to lips, trim chin, remove neck lines, soften line under ear lobe, add highlights to earrings, add blush to cheek, clean up neck line, remove stray hair, remove hair strands from dress, adjust color and add hair on top of head, add dress on side to create better line... Total: $1,525.00.
- The invoice for retouching the cover photo of Michelle Pfeiffer, in the December 1990, issue of Esquire magazine, obtained by Harper's. The photo's caption reads, "What Michelle Pfeiffer Needs...Is Absolutely Nothing."
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