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"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."

"Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul."

"The time you utilize doing something determines how good the product will be."

"Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him."

"Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives."

"Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."

"What is easy is seldom excellent."

"The amount of time you invest into your products determines the quality of the products."
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"Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations."


"Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic."


"Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck."


"Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already."


"An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence."


"At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable."


"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."
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