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Al Alvarez

"I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade."

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"I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade."

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"When you make a bet, you're saying something."
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"I hate writing."
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"I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck."
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"I'm good at reading people."
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"The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all."
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"Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling."
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"But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table."
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"Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade."
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"I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table."
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"I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients."

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Aberjhani

"China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade... They don't have any compliance or enforcement."

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"Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist."

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"Local differences in the prices of commodities whose natures are technologically identical are to be explained on the one hand by differences in the cost of preparing them for consumption (expenses of transport, cost of retailing etc.) and on the other hand by the physical and legal obstacles that restrict the mobility of commodities and human beings."

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"America's largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner."

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"It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world."

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"I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his."

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"We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that."

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"To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error."

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"It was tumultuous, it was crazy, but I would not trade it for anything."

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"The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them."

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