"When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name."

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Source : Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

Vilfredo Pareto

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“Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.”
“Kind of where you end up your ride on a horse is so important. It's a little bit like when you guys were younger & you were dating, that last two minutes of the date can be a real deal breaker. With these horses it's the same thing you know? You got to quit on a good note.”
“When Christmas doesn't fit your expectations of what the perfect holiday should be, think about how Joseph and Mary probably didn't think that manger was the perfect place for their child to be born. but look at what a perfect Christmas that turned out to be.”
“I worked in restaurants the first half of my life.”
“By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between loftiness and accessibility. Stir in the fact that the inborn talent and intelligence needed to achieve fame are immune to distributive tinkering by government programs and you have a definition of fame certain to produce envious rage: somebody screwed democracy.”
“In Miami they're building all these hideous monstrosities. It's just so easy to be an architect, once you've got the ability to do your computer drawings. They just knock off each other. There's nothing creative in any of them.”

Source : "Biba Lives". Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 26, 2009.
“Mexico has many more kidnappings than the United States. The U.S. has very few kidnappings.The reason is, in the United States, we don't pay ransom. We turn it over to the FBI. They catch the person. And then, of course, we used to have the death penalty for it. Now it's life in prison. In Mexico, everybody pays. It's a business...”
“We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.”

Source : "Sonny Bono Killed In Skiing Accident", www.cnn.com. January 6, 1998.

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