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All Quotes Collection
"Patriotism is the religion of hell."
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"Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences."
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"The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment."
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"When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'"
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"I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!"
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"My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!"
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"I feel like the same person, but I feel as if I need to work twice as much now."
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"I'm just trying to play my best and have fun."
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"I'm taking my time. I feel much more confident, and every day I feel like I'm getting better."
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"But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life."
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"We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law."
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"They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him."
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"It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give."
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"They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors."
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"The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever."
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"Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything."
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"I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there."
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"The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life."
163
"What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter."
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"Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act."
162
"Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth."
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"Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger."
161
"If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race."
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"If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs."
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"Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart."
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"God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box."
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"If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting."
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"You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel."
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"There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place."
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"The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering."
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"Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn."
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"Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing."
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"I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure."
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"You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write."
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