Darkly Comical Quotes

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When a business firm attempts to mold its whole policy to meet the prices of its competitor that business is entering a labyrinth, the center of which is the chamber of despair. Highest quality never can be given nor obtained at the lowest prices. If a price must be sacrificed, quality must be sacrificed. If quality is sacrificed society is not truly served. – H. T. Garvey

The political machine triumphs because it is united minority acting against a divided majority. Will Durant

Just as you are unconsciously influenced by outside advertisement, announcement, and appeal, so you can vitally influence your life from within by autosuggestion. The first thing each morning and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind. – Grenville Kleiser

He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. – Longfellow

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius. – Simms

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable or any we have, and therefore should be secured, because they seldom return again. – Locke

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us some one else’s work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. – Henry Ford

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. – Cicero