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a tasty sampling of . . . FAVORITE QUOTES

 

"There is less leisure now than in the middle ages, when one third of the year consisted of festivals and holidays..." 

—  Ralph Borsodi

 

"Money is not everything, but it’s up there with oxygen." 

— Zig Ziglar

 

"For an idea ever to be fashionable is onimous, since it must afterwards always be old-fashioned." 

—  George Santayana

 

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." 

— Gertrude Stein ( in the 19th century, for Chrissake)

 

"Imagination is a poor substitute for experience" 

— Havelock Ellis

 

"In the consumer age, it is subversive to express an opinion, but it is also subversive not to express a preference."

—John C Graves

 

"It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection."

—Thomas Babington Macaulay

 

"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it’s done, they’ve seen it done every day, but they’re unable to do it themselves" 

— Brendan Behan

 

"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." 

—HL Mencken

 

"Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty."

—John Huston

 

"For whatever the reason, the system we live in and contribute to is designed to make the easiest things in life the most unprofitable. Profitable seems to be the most difficult. Our world is and always will be a constant battle between the life of ease and it's momentary rewards, and the life of discipline, and it's far more significant rewards."

— Jim Rohn

 

"There’s no such thing as a bad day when you have a doorknob on the inside of a door." 

— POW from the Vietnam War

 

"If a business cannot operate in a given locality, it can decentralize, relocate, automate, go offshore, subcontract, outsource — there are all kinds of possibilities, which make it difficult to control. Now, on the one hand I would say these flexibilities are wonderful for the production system. The problem is that a society that is only oriented toward the production system ultimately destroys itself, because if business is highly productive but moves constantly from one locality to another, then the social cost and finally the economic cost, in terms of burned-out people, burned out capital, burned-out societies, will drag down the business productivity as well."

—Manuel Castells from Upside Magazine