#sin

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#arresting #enough #get #human #human intelligence

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#expedition #fourth #funds #proved #raising

Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#could #far #nursing #often #proper

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#america #came #crossed #during #elapsed

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would. ↗

— Mary Leakey

#exam #had #i #never #passed

One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#categorizing #difficult #few #forget #items

Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make. ↗

— Norman Lear

#community #deal #directors #granted #great

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings. ↗

— Norman Lear

#avenue #begins #buying #desks #discussing

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings. ↗

— Norman Lear

#director #get #producer #ratings #writer

First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#again #against #businessman #carried #citizens