"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

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Aldous Huxley

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“I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.”

Source : Smedley Darlington Butler (2016). “War Is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“Organised brigandage has ceased to exist, but murder and highway robbery are still far too common in the less frequented districts. Travellers rarely suffer to-day, however. It is the wealthy inhabitants who run risks at the hand of the mafia, or lawless Sicilian.”

Source : Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) (1904). “Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins”
“A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.”
“The reason to go public is that it is a massive branding, marketing, credibility, trust-building exercise with your customers, and then it allows you to consolidate power and scale and market share. Do we want to be a huge company with a huge impact? If the answer to that is yes, the only way that that happens is by going public. It is effectively a branding event that catalyzes interest. It helps with recruiting, it helps with marketing, it helps with sales. It just helps on many dimensions. I think it's basically a litmus test for the CEO's ambition.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.”
“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”
“Hanson? Yeah, I've heard of them, I saw them perform and they have an interesting sound. I wish them every success.”
“My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.”

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