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- We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.
- Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
- It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research
- Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
- A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.
- Robert Oxton Bolton
- Berlin is the testicle of the West. When I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.
- Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971)
- Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.
- Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), "Molloy", 1951
- Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
- How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
- I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
- I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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