"We should not pour muck on ourselves."

-- Leonid Brezhnev

“Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman.”
“Go on... make a difference.”
“I built my [early] career on negative reviews. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. They hated my movies. You could never have that happen today. Critics are way too hip.”
“You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.”

Source : "The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers". Book by Ben Horowitz, March 4, 2014.
“My general impression about people like Steve Gould and Carl Sagan and so on is that when they disappear as individuals and are no longer appearing on the stage and they are no longer writing, that their lifetime of acknowledgement by the general reading public is not very long.There were many people in the 19th century who were equally famous people who gave working man's lectures, supporters of Darwin, we as scholars know their names but the general public never heard of them.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.”

Source : c.1900 Quoted in Oliver Carlson Brisbane: a Candid Biography (1937), ch.5.
“I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.”
“As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.”

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