"These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls."

-- Jacques Delors

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“Companies don't get rich hurting their customers.”
“Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.”
“It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.”

Source : Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.100
“I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.”
“What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is”
“If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.”
“Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.”

Source : Joseph Brodsky (2011). “On Grief And Reason: Essays”, p.145, Penguin UK
“It is what we see when we imagine what the afterlife must be like: our happiest triumphs, our most sincere moments, stolen from the seam of our lives, a respite just before the onset of imminent tragedy.”

Source : Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.285, Akashic Books

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