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The overall decline in our boys' business hurt toys' profitability because that is a high margin business for us,


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ALFRED SLOAN Some have an idea that the reason we in this country discard things so readily is because we have so...
ALFRED SLOAN If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this m...
ALFRED SLOAN The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
ALFRED SISLEY I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.
ALFRED SISLEY Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
ALFRED SISLEY Our family lived in Vienna, Austria. after the war and apart from an accordion, there was no other m...
ALFRED SCHNITTKE I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.
ALFRED SCHNITTKE I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in ...
ALFRED SCHNITTKE For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long la...
ALFRED SCHNITTKE For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.
ALFRED SCHNITTKE