“There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.”
Source: Crocodile on the Sandbank
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“Actually, the problem in the world is that there are too many rich people.”
Americans plunder planet? http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TjAcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KHoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6924,333924&hl=en, Associated Press, April 6, 1990.
Preface http://books.google.com/books?id=U_xaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22A+good+many+young+writers+make+the+mistake+of+enclosing+a+stamped+self-addressed+envelope+big+enough+for+the+manuscript+to+come+back+in+This+is+too+much+of+a+temptation+to+the+editor%22&pg=PAx#v=onepage to How to Write Short Stories (1924)
“There is too little mystery in the world; too many people say exactly what they feel or want.”
Source: The Art of Seduction
Annual address to the America Bar Association winter convention, Los Vegas (February 12, 1984).
“That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget.”
From Walt Disney World: Then, Now, & Forever: Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that. I won't do that. I'll temper a story, yes. But I won't play down, and I won't patronize.
The Quotable Walt Disney (2001)
Context: That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. I won't do that. I'll temper a story, yes. But I won't play down, and I won't patronize.
Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 226
Preserving Words and Worlds https://onbeing.org/programs/columba-stewart-and-getatchew-haile-preserving-words-and-worlds/ (19 January 2009)
