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“Many people ... prefer to describe themselves as progressives rather than liberals. To some extent that's a response to the decades-long propaganda campaign conducted by movement conservatives, which has been quite successful in making Americans disdain the word liberal but much less successful in reducing support for liberal policies.”

People Long Has Beens Support Successful Policy Movement Response Decades Campaigns Propaganda Reducing Disdain

Book:The Conscience of a Liberal

Source: The Conscience of a Liberal

“Within the decade, Microsoft should have a minimum of 300 stores. They should do as well as the Apple Stores... [Microsoft] is going to experiment with holiday pop-up shops this year in various cities. I predict they will be hugely successful.”

Should Years Wells Cities Successful Should Have Various Pops Decades Stores Experiments Apples Shops Holiday Minimum Microsoft

Author:John C. Dvorak

“This is the age of the apartment. Not only in the great cities, but in the smaller centers of civilization the apartment has come to stay. ... A decade ago the apartment was considered a sorry makeshift in America, though it has been successful abroad for more years than you would believe.”

Years Believe Has Beens Home Age America Cities Successful Civilization Sorry Decades Apartment Great Cities

Book:The House in Good Taste

Source: The House in Good Taste

“Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.”

Real Next Worry Successful Air Including Terrorism Decades Planes Scare Survived Air Travel

Author:Bruce Schneier

“The new advocates of ID [Intelligent Design] ask that their ideas be judged by scientific, not religious, criteria. OK, let's see how well ID stacks up as a scientific alternative to Darwinism. To gauge how well ID is doing as a platform for scientific research, I logged into the best database of the biological literature. A search for keyword ''evolution'' yielded 24,000 hits in the last decade. A search for ''intelligent design'' yielded not a single piece of research. Evolution by natural selection remains the basis of every successful biological research program.”

“You can't not be a little different from others and be successful for three decades.”

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Author:Charlie Sheen

“Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade.”

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Author:Norman Ralph Augustine

“When I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as soon as I discovered that this was the brand name for an antidepressant, I tossed the bottle away. There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues but for me they cannot include a capsule that says: 'Fool yourself into happiness, while pretending not to do so.' I should actually want my mind to be strong enough to circumvent such a trick.”

Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir