Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.


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Nothing in Belle and Sebastian has been calculated, down to what we're having for lunch. It was only...
STUART MURDOCH
People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged.
RUPERT MURDOCH
I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television....
RUPERT MURDOCH
Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation...
RUPERT MURDOCH
Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obi...
RUPERT MURDOCH
I take my hand back, like a leaf letting go. It hurts too much to hang on. So why does it hurt so mu...
EMILY MURDOCH
Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd tr...
RUPERT MURDOCH
My emotions swirl like leaves caught in the breath of a dust devil, and the only thing I can seem to...
EMILY MURDOCH
If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also sta...
RUPERT MURDOCH
I went to a foot specialist recently and she said:
"You've broken a bone, it's healed funny." STUART MURDOCH
It made it hard to come back.
DAVID MURDOCH
It is hard to take because the chance was there. It will be with me for a long time but I am hoping ...
DAVID MURDOCH
We really couldn't have done any more. We trained our hearts out and prepared as well as we could an...
DAVID MURDOCH
That's fine. It's what we expected. We get a chance to get our revenge on Finland. We are going in v...
DAVID MURDOCH
It feels fantastic to finally get started after all the build-up. We are not quite used to the ice y...
DAVID MURDOCH
I'm happy because I've got a great team behind me.
DAVID MURDOCH
We are all getting on fine and our third place in the European Championships showed we can play well...
DAVID MURDOCH
We are all very well and looking forward to it. We had a really excellent four or five days of inten...
DAVID MURDOCH
We've beaten all our opposition at different times, so we know we are capable of beating them on the...
DAVID MURDOCH
We all know growth is absolutely vital to a free society. No one should want Australia to be a stag-...
RUPERT MURDOCH
The whole rationale is being driven by the consumer. They want the whole home solution with the best...
JAMES MURDOCH
We've reached a point where integration into a home entertainment platform will be both viable and a...
JAMES MURDOCH
This positions Sky very well to take a leading position in what we think is a very attractive and fa...
JAMES MURDOCH
Today?s offer reflects the exciting opportunities that now exist to combine quality entertainment wi...
JAMES MURDOCH
Taiwan is Asia's most well-established and vibrant cable market,
JAMES MURDOCH
I am sure he will help us build Sky's reputation as the nation's number one entertainment choice,
JAMES MURDOCH
I fully intend to be here for the long term. It is a strategy that's going to take a lot of work. I'...
JAMES MURDOCH
My hope and my intention is that as long as the board is satisfied with the work that I'm doing that...
JAMES MURDOCH
I fully intend to be here (at Sky) in the long term, I'm fully committed. So you're stuck with me,
JAMES MURDOCH
[It will] blow people backwards out of their living room.
JAMES MURDOCH
~In motivating people, YOU've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope,...
RUPERT MURDOCH
Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too wor...
RUPERT MURDOCH
The things most likely to get earwigs are dahlias.
RICHARD MURDOCH
I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up. Now, I don't think there...
JAMES MURDOCH
If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together.… there is something you must always remember....
EMILY MURDOCH
Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
IRIS APFEL
I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writ...
IRIS JOHANSEN
I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' wr...
IRIS JOHANSEN
The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound...
IRIS JOHANSEN
I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
IRIS JOHANSEN