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“By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers.”
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“It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.”
Source : Davis v. United States, 328 U.S. 582, 597, 1946.
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“Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.”
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“In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways.”
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“Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'”
Source : Erwin Chargaff (1977). “Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science”, Harper San Francisco
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“The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.”
Source : Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations”, p.4
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“The key question companies need to address is not 'Should we make mistakes?' but rather 'Which mistakes should we make in order to test our deeply held assumptions?'”
Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
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“The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.”
