"The most important fact about our shopping malls, as distinct from the ordinary shopping centers where we go for our groceries, is that we do not need most of what they sell, not even for our pleasure or entertainment, not really even for a sensation of luxury. Little in them is essential to our survival, our work, or our play, and the same is true of the boutiques that multiply on our streets."

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Source : Henry Fairlie (1979). “The Seven Deadly Sins Today”

Henry Fairlie

#Play Quotes #Shopping Quotes #Luxury Quotes

“You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.”
“Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.”

Source : Sir Richard Francis Burton (1894). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi: A Lay of the Higher Law”
“Gifts and abilities, no matter how magnificent, are either limited or enhanced by character.”
“Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.”
“Much like great products, great content will only find the best people to love it if it's leveraged well.”
“There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.”
“If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet.”
“When people decide that a certain way of faith is destined and inevitable, hatred and intolerance follow. Instead of saying, 'The Light is within you, choose the Light,' the message becomes 'Agree with our version of history or we'll kill you.'”

Source : "The Golden City". Book by John Twelve Hawks, 2009.

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