"Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it."

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Source : Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

Christopher Lasch

#Order Quotes #Overcoming Quotes #Today Quotes

“We are the most focused company that I know of or have read of or have any knowledge of. We say no to good ideas every day. We say no to great ideas in order to keep the amount of things we focus on very small in number, so that we can put enormous energy behind the ones we do choose.....It's not just saying yes to the right products, it's saying no to many products that are good ideas, but just not nearly as good as other ones.”

Source : "Apple COO Tim Cook: 'We Have No Interest In Being In The TV Market'" by Dan Frommer, www.businessinsider.com. February 23, 2010.
“We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.”
“Independent thinking is not just helpful in becoming a successful investor, itâ€™s required.”

Source : Whitney Tilson, Glenn Tongue (2009). “More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times”, p.138, John Wiley & Sons
“I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.”
“Look at it this way: There are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid twitching of one tortured nerve, or even a full-scale anxiety attack. I do not subscribe to this point of view 100 percent, but I understand it, have lived it. Thus the shriek, the caterwaul, the chainsaw gnarlgnashing, the yowl and the whizz that decapitates may be reheard by the adventurous or emotionally damaged as mellifluous bursts of unarguable affirmation.”
“Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.”
“Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.”
“Their smiles are lies. Most smiles are.”

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