"I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has amused the public as well, so much the better for me."

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Source : The Idler Interview (1896), as quoted in "Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography" by Matthew Sturgis, 1999.

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“Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.”
“At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through; at each epoch the world was lost, and at each epoch it was saved.”
“Maybe in my personal life, but as far as my career, I've been offered some humongous things in my career and didn't take them. I look back and think, oh man, well I'd have been well off monetarily wise, but artistic wise I don't know. I'd have to say, personally, in my personal life, yeah, but in my musical life, on twenty-twenty hindsight I would say just take the good with the bad.”

Source : Source: magazine.100percentrock.com
“Two of the biggest drivers of airline profit are change fees and baggage fees.”
“Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.”

Source : "Reflections on Human Action after 50 years". Cato Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1999.
“It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.”

Source : James Clerk Maxwell (1954). “A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism”, p.11, Courier Corporation
“We keep a change in place by helping to create a new, supportive, and sufficiently strong organizational culture.”
“When it comes to personnel issues, I act professionally and respectful of former employees. I just assume that's a two-way street. It's disappointing when it's not.”

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