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It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.

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You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that. Kevin Rollins
A foolhardy lot, we accepted it all, as we always do, never asked: "What is going to happen to us now, with this invention of print?" In the same way, we never thought to ask, "How will our lives, our way of thinking, be changed by the internet, which has seduced a whole generation with its inanities so that even quite reasonable people will confess that, once they are hooked, it is hard to cut free, and they may find a whole day has passed in blogging etc? Doris Lessing
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit. Donald Johanson
If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most Ill-adapted to its purpose in the world: for it is absurd to suppose that the endless affliction of which the world is everywhere full, and which arises out of the need and distress pertaining essentially to life, should be purposeless and purely accidental. Each individual misfortune, to be sure, seems an exceptional occurrence; but misfortune in general is the rule. Arthur Schopenhauer
Jason Mraz quote: "I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend Lucky to have been..."
I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend Lucky to have been where I have been Lucky to be coming home again Jason Mraz
The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so. Harry Emerson Fosdick
I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out. Jared Harris
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs. Henri Bergson
The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American. Lorna Luft
Jessica Lange quote: "I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing..."
I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18. Jessica Lange
James Joyce quote: "Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles..."
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. James Joyce
J. B. Priestley quote: "Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness..."
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. J. B. Priestley
Napoleon Bonaparte quote: "I may have lost a battle, but not the war."
I may have lost a battle, but not the war. Napoleon Bonaparte
Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand principle; they will not; nor ought they, nor can they. Ye shall reduce them to order, begin reducing them. to order, to just subordination; noble loyalty in return for noble guidance. Their souls are driven nigh mad; let yours be sane and ever saner. Thomas Carlyle
Vincent Bugliosi quote: "It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has..."
It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned. Vincent Bugliosi