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On advertising

“Without promotion something terrible happens...Nothing!" - PT Barnum

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On neighbours and beliefs

"I would suggest that if your ideals and beliefs make you increasingly isolated from your neighbors, maybe it’s time to find new neighbors." - Simon Black

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On repetition

"Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost." - Oscar Wilde

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On complexity

“Fools ignore complexity; pragmatists suffer it; experts avoid it; geniuses remove it.” - Alan Perlis (Computer Scientist)

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On socialism and spending other people's money

"...and Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them." - Margaret Thatcher (this quote is often shortenned: "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money ")

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On liberty and safety

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin

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On newspapers and the truth

"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." - Thomas Jefferson

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On integrity

"...it’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time. If you give in to “just this once,” based on a marginal cost analysis, as some of my former classmates have done, you’ll regret where you end up. You’ve got to define for yourself what you stand for and draw the line in a safe place." - Clayton M. Christensen (via James Siminoff)

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On stupidity

"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." - Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)

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On money

"Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy." - Groucho Marx

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