"Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you're 80-20 sure of winning it."

-- Ian Darke

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“Over the last 25 years, the American free enterprise system created the most diverse video programming on earth with the best value for the customer. It is disappointing that the updated report relies on assumptions that are not in line with the reality of the marketplace.”
“With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half.”
“If it's a choice between spending twenty five dollars for tickets to a movie and almost that much again for drinks and popcorn, it's understandable that people are opting to buy a movie on DVD for fifteen dollars, even if it's no-frills.”
“Electric telegraphs, printing, gas, Tobacco, balloons, and steam, Are little events that have come to pass Since the days of the old regime. And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page, I'd give--though it might seem bold-- A hundred years of the Golden Age For a year of the Age of Gold.”

Source : Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1869). “Carols of Cockayne”, p.28
“Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.”
“As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.”

Source : Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”
“Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.”
“A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again that "E is dense in E" does not mean the same thing as "E is dense in itself".”

Source : John Edensor Littlewood (1953). “A mathematicians's miscellany”

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