#pro

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#better #certain #certainly #circumstances #doctors

Toy companies aren't interested in ideology, they want to sell toys. If they would sell a toy that both boys and girls would buy, it doubles profits. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#boys and girls #buy #companies #doubles #ideology

I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is - a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate. ↗

— Suzanne Somers

#different #digests #form #i #interviewing

Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#cast #money #more #much #nowadays

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. ↗

— Sophocles

#dead #deceiver #flows #gratitude #how

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception. ↗

— Sophocles

#comes #deception #even #profit #sweet

I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh. ↗

— Alberto Sordi

#approach #i #later #laugh #life

Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing. ↗

— Georges Sorel

#bloody #cast #country #disorders #hate

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company. ↗

— David Friedman

#company #created #i #my own #nancy

I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. ↗

— George Soros

#away #care #country #doing #foundations