Quotes

"He had delusions of adequacy."

“In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.”

"When they give birth to a son, they put honey on his mouth and place glue in his palms so that when he grows up, he will speak sweet words and grasp coins in his hand as if they were glued there ...

They are good at trading, love profit, and go abroad at the age of twenty. They are everywhere profit is to be found."

                                       --Description of inhabitants of Samarkand from Chinese Chronicles

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand.”

"You have to distinguish between two things |the economy and the stock market. The economy is the sum of all the goods and services that are produced in this country every day. There are telephones, cars, chickens and airplanes. That's the economy, and it's just as strong or weak today as it was a week ago."

"The Stock Exchange is something very different. There is no economy and no production of goods and services. There are only fantasies in which people from one hour to the next decide that this or that company is worth so many billions, more or less. It doesn't have a thing to do with reality or with the economy."

"It only means that a bunch of heavy speculators are now moving their shareholdings from companies here to German or Chinese ones. So it's the financial gnomes that some tough reporter should identify and expose as traitors. They're the ones who are systematically and perhaps deliberately damaging the economy in order to satisfy the profit interests of their clients."

                               --The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

"May your stream be strong and dribble free."

               --Old Welsh Blessing

"God gives us miseries, the Devil gives us drink."

"To a gentleman and a scholar... and if the truth be known, sir, a great judge of Irish Whiskey."

"Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

"May I remind you of the famous dictum of General Tacticus: 'Those who desire war, prepare for war'?"

"When we can't defend our beliefs with words, we resort to violence."

"Show me a man who is trying to save the world and I'll show you a man who has no problems of his own or is willfully ignoring them."

"Many of us would be in no political party at all if we could get someone elected that way."

                    --Libertarian Party Member

“Voting” and “elections” serve the same purpose as the steering wheel on Maggie Simpson’s car seat."

"...that historic document had been crafted which guaranteed for all Russians freedom of conscience (Article 13), freedom of expression (Article14), freedom of assembly (Article 15), and freedom to have any of these rights revoked should they be "utilized to the detriment of the socialist revolution" (Article23)!"

                                    -- Referring to the Russian Constitution written by the Party Congress after the Revolution

"The essence of Fascism is to make laws against everything and then selectively enforce them against your enemies."

IRAN ACCUSED OF NOT PROVING IT IS NOT DOING SOMETHING IT HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF DOING.                      

                       --Headline in The Onion

"In battle, in forest, at the precipice of the mountains, on the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, in sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, the good deeds a man has done defend him."

             --The Gita

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