"It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests - and so perfectly within their rights! They had done nothing to deserve it; and it was adding insult to injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up in this cold-blooded, impersonal way, without pretence at apology, without the homage of a tear."

-- Upton Sinclair

#Apology Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Rights Quotes

“I think if you can create a meaningful thing that is also an advertisement that's a pretty cool option for brands.”

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“I like business, and the truth is I save way more than I spend. I invest. I plan for the future. I have a special eye for opportunities and work harder than anyone might expect.”

Source : "Sofia Vergara, Business Guru: 'I'm Not Ashamed to Say I Love Making Money'" by Michael Rothman, abcnews.go.com. December 11, 2013.
“When we helped prevent the massacre of civilians trapped on a distant mountain, here's what one of them said: "We owe our American friends our lives. Our children will always remember that there was someone who felt our struggle and made a long journey to protect innocent people." That is the difference we make in the world.”
“I wasn't sure how people were going to take to the stories I was telling and the things I wanted to sing about.”

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“The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability.”
“I have to confess that it's crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian.”
“Look into the world--how often do you behold a sordid wretch, whose straight heart is open to no man's affliction, taking shelterbehind an appearance of piety, and putting on the garb of religion, which none but the merciful and compassionate have a title to wear.”
“I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed.”

Source : Patricia Briggs (2013). “Frost Burned”, p.174, Penguin

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