"The Sound of Music' did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders."

-- Richard D. Zanuck

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“For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.”

Source : Lactantius (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)”, p.25, Jazzybee Verlag
“I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.”
“I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.”
“Because as an only child, you have your own little world.”
“There were occasionally rifts in the cloud where the face of a woman appeared, frowning.”
“Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles, and less for the fate, of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat.”

Source : Jacob August Riis (1914). “How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York”
“No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.”
“The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.”

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