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"Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation."
"There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim."
"Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT."
"It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear."
"Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it."
"In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense."
"Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is."
"[ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is not a very balanced man. When he talks, you never understand what he means. What does he mean this time? That he wants to be friends with us? We've wanted to be friends with him for some time; I've always wanted to."
"And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive."
"A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian. "Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry"
"You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost"
"The 3 questions of greatest concern are:, 1) Is it attractive?, 2) Is it amusing?, 3) Does it know its place?"
"The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes."
"Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all."
"Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest."
"It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water."
"Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect."
"Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does."
"The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not."