"Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade."

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Source : Bette Midler (1980). “A View from a Broad”, Simon & Schuster

Bette Midler

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“For me, it's often about consumption behavior. I focus my energy on understanding the heavy user. They are "odd" but hold opportunity. I ask: how do they use the product, what motivates them, how can we clone them.”
“Life's real victories must be shared.”

Source : "'He belongs to the ages': Obama, US leaders mourn Mandela's death", www.foxnews.com. December 5, 2013.
“I'm so passionately hopelessly in love with my job! I think the definition of workaholic is that you can't wait till the weekend is over so you can start working again.”
“You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.”
“A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures.”
“Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.”
“A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement.”
“Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has well been said, 'the essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed.'”

Source : Speech to the American Bar Association, September 02, 1925.

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