"Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

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“Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans.”

Source : "Building Your Business From the Ground Up or Licensing Your Idea: Which Is Right for You?" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2009.
“The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.”
“I burned through all of my extra lives in a matter of minutes, and my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.”
“In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players.”
“Now, there are roles which are capturing a vibrant moment in an older woman's life. There was a time when those interesting roles stopped at 28. A few years ago we would have been finished by our age.”
“I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings.”

Source : John Burroughs (1924). “Summit of the years”
“I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much.”
“I don't think every movie should be in 3D. I hope the Coen brothers don't do their next movie in 3D. I don't think they have any plans to.”

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