Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.

The world loves a spice of wickedness.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

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Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.

Camille Paglia

Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.

Lenny Bruce

I was such an ugly kid - When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up

Rodney Dangerfield

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

Yogi Berra

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Jim Rohn

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.

Gracie Allen

Economics is a very dangerous science.

John Maynard Keynes

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

Henry Miller

The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.

J. G. Ballard, Introduction to t

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

William Shakespeare