While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures … - Jack Vance

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Without the right marketing metrics, you are shooting in the dark. The only way to know if things are working for you or not is those metrics.

Jack Vance

While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.

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If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.

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Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.

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Good music always defeats bad luck

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What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

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I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

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