"We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?"

-- Friedrich Schiller

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“We have been the most prodigal of people with land, and for years we wasted it with impunity. There was so much of it, and no matter how we fouled it, there was always more over the next hill, or so it seemed.”

Source : William H. Whyte (2012). “The Last Landscape”, p.1, University of Pennsylvania Press
“I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.”
“Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.”
“The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.”
“I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.”

Source : "I Am American Business", www.cnbc.com.
“I knew that I shouldnâ€™t have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my grave is going to require a monument inscribed on all four sides with rueful mottoes, in small characters, set close together.”
“The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough.”
“Desire is proof of the availability...”

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