QUOTE A DAY - July 5, 2011

Greetings fellow quote lovers:

So, how was your fourth? I am preparing this on Saturday because I plan on having a BBQ on the 4th...

Hope you enjoy.

Best,
JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.
--Adam Smith

Greatness is not where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it- but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post -- for support, rather than for illumination.
--David Ogilvy

**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

See at the bottom for the answer
*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
Many reduce my ideas to opposition to technology when in fact, I am opposing the naive blindness to its side effects-the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethics and conditional about technology than the reverse.
--Nassim Taleb

The first thing a genius needs is to breathe free air.
--Ludwig von Mises

MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

MYSTERY ANSWER: George Orwell


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