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People get stoked by conflict. They take sides. Passions are ignited. And that's a good way to get people to take notice.
- Jason Fried
Having an enemy gives you a great story to tell customers, too. Taking a stand always stands out. People get stoked by conflict. They take sides. Passions are ignited. And that's a good way to get people to take notice.
- Jason Fried
One of the worst ways is the non-apology apology, which sounds like an apology but doesn't really accept any blame. For example, "We're sorry if this upset you." Or "I'm sorry that you don't feel we lived up to your expectations." Whatever.
- Jason Fried
We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.
- Edith Wharton
Each was anxious to play the part fate had allotted to him, and each was dimly conscious of an inability to remain confined in it, and painfully aware that their secret problems would have been unintelligible to most men of their own class and kind.
- Edith Wharton
the things that she took for granted gave the measure of those she had rebelled against.
- Edith Wharton
You might as well tell me there was nobody but Adam in the garden when Eve picked the apple. You say your wife was discontented? No woman ever knows she's discontented till some man tells her so. My God! I've seen smash-ups before now; but I never yet saw a marriage dissolved like a business partnership.
- Edith Wharton
We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us
- Edmund Burke
The bitter heart-burnings, and the war of tongues, which is so often the prelude to other wars.
- Edmund Burke