We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
~ Joan Didion
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We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
~ Joan Didion
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The succes of a brand on the long term is not based on a number of consumers that buy it once, but on the number of consumers who become regular buyers of the brand.
~ Jacob Jacoby
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The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.
~ Che Guevara
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The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The awareness of their individual blemishes and shortcomings inclines the frustrated to detect ill will and meanness in their fellow men. Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others.
~ Eric Hoffer
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A philosophy has a practical power: it contributes to the changing of the world.
~ Umberto Eco
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Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
~ Ernest Hemingway
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.
~ Milan Kundera
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The most effective way of making people accept the validity of the values they are to serve is to persuade them that they are really the same as those which they, or at least the best among them, have always held, but which were not properly understood or recognized before.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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Conscience is better served by a myth.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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