Posts from ‘November, 2008’

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. ~Samuel Johnson
Our society’s values are being corrupted by advertising’s insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness. ~John Fisher
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single [...]

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed [...]

The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.
The opportunities are still there.
You can’t just let nature run wild.
I don’t want the public to see the world they live in while they’re in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they’re in another world.
Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always [...]

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.~Maria Edgeworth
Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.~Harry Emerson Fosdick
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.~William Wordsworth
Business, that’s easily defined – it’s other people’s money.~Peter Drucker
As [...]

Astrologers that future fates foreshow. ~Alexander Pope
I don’t believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.~Noel Coward
The astrologer who spells the stars, mistakes his globes, and in her bright eye interprets heaven’s physiognomies. ~John Cleveland
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has [...]

Any belief worth having must survive doubt.~Unknown Author
Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.~Noah Porter
It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.~George Bernard Shaw
Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.~Lewis Carroll
The belief that there is only one truth, [...]

Let my enemies devour each other.
I am not strange, I am just not normal.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The only thing that the world will not have enough of is exaggeration.
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
You know the worst thing is [...]