Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory. - Justin Kaplan

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I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn't you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.

Justin Kaplan

Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.

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Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.

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There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable.

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