"Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars set aside for necessities"

“A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.”

“Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.”

“The wonders of the ages assembled for your edification, education and enjoyment - for a price.”

“Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.”

Source : George Mikes (1986). “How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide”, p.142, Penguin UK

“There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules”

“We believe Skype in the Classroom will be a milestone in inspiring the next generation of social entrepreneurs and we can't wait to connect students with TOMS partners.”

“What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his principle of existence had become the haunting central figure in contemporary life?”

Source : Alfred Kazin (2013). “On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Each of us must come to care about everyone else's children. We must recognize that the welfare of our children and grandchildren is intimately linked to the welfare of all other people's children. After all, when one of our children needs lifesaving surgery, someone else's child will perform it. If one of our children is threatened or harmed by violence, someone else's child will be responsible for the violent act. The good life for our own children can be secured only if a good life is also secured for all other people's children.”