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One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#become #becoming #capone #city #crime

I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived. ↗

— L'Wren Scott

#how #i #i am #obsessed #perceived

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine. ↗

— Andres Serrano

#her #his #i #mine #nothing

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. ↗

— Walter Scott

#crowded #decorum #either #existence #filled

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#appear #fool #i #like #observed

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#aimed #also #award #bangladesh #basic

I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive? ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#children #how #i #i am #obsessed

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#both #either #existence #ignorant #ignorant people

The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#consciousness #distribution #explains #few #first

The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#brief #concept #feature #intelligent #intelligent person