David Graeber Quotes

Medieval corporations owned property, and they often engaged in complex financial arrangements, but in no case were they profit-seeking enterprises in the modern sense.

David Graeber

Financial

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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

Randa Abdel-Fattah
- Time
- Work
- Book
I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.

Oscar Pistorius
- Time
- Past
- Fitness
The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.

Randy Bachman The Guess Who
- World
- Country
- Black
President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

Samantha Power
- Security
- Reputation
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

Fran Lebowitz
- Up
- Animal
- Jump
I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.

Walt Mossberg
- Great
- Different
- Career