"In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;â€”in that of poets of amusementâ€”in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,â€”and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument."

-- Jeremy Bentham

#Ambition Quotes #Mind Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“You're going to pull out your phone and try to use whatever is the most appropriate app on your iPhone or your Android device. Yelp saw that very early on. And when we launched the mobile product, we saw immediate growth, and we were stunned.”

Source : "Bartiromo: Yelp's Max Levchin sees mobile as path to growth". Interview with Maria Bartiromo, www.usatoday.com. August 19, 2012.
“Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel the need to stand out, to be paid attention to and be considered apart from the rest Fashion elevates the insignificant by making it in the representative of a totality, the particular incarnation of a common spirit. Its function is to make possible the kind of social obedience which is at the same time individual differentiation It is the mixing of submission and the feeling of domination that is in action here.”
“I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream”
“In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information to reach corporate headquarters. And there would be an inventory pileup. And then - bam - businesses would react, sometimes violently, by cutting production.”
“Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.”

Source : WILLIAM STRUNK, JR. (1959). “THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE”
“You make choices, as a young man. I knew I wanted to be an actor, so I pursued that, but the desire to compete still stayed with me.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.”
“Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.”

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