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  •    It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in our society today† This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

    - Isaac Asimov
     'My Own View', in R Holdstock (ed) Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1978).

  • My message to the businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is that there is one good thing above all they can take with them to stop them catching AIDSand that is the wife.

    - Edwina Currie
      Speech as Health Minister,12 Feb.

  • No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

    - Robert Lee Frost
      'New Hampshire'.

  • Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

    - Mario Puzo
      The Godfather, bk.3, ch.14.

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