It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.

Dee Brown

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

Don Roff

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.

George Bernard Shaw

Don't learn safety rules simply by accident

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That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

George Stigler

What was this dream we had, a dream of music, Music that rose from the opening earth like magic And shook its beauty upon us and died away? The long cold streets extend once more before us. The red sun drops, the walls grow grey.

Conrad Aiken

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

James Barrie

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

Joseph Conrad

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied... but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.

John Berger

It's not lying when you do it to officers!

Terry Pratchett

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

Hugh Prather

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer