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'Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history and around the world. I finally understood how a Middle Eastern souk actually works economically and how to compare that to modern-day telecom-spectrum auctions. I love that book.

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• It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Great
  • Important
  • Rules

• The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Good
  • American

• My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • Mother
  • Father

• The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Doing
  • Problems

• People love to be told what they know already.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• I have a really great show jacket from Lavalliere that's really well made, and I have a great pair of Gucci jodhpurs, which is hilarious.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Great
  • Hilarious
  • Jacket

• In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai Lama, Osama Bin Laden, and Einstein.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
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  • Find
  • Biographies

• Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Friends
  • Career

• I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Love
  • Honest

• A book is a gift you can open again and again.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Book
  • You
  • Gift

• I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Time
  • World
  • Pretty

• It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Fun
  • Know

• The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • World
  • American

• There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Story
  • Inside

• I don't know how many bestsellers I've got, or half the awards I've won, and I don't really care. I'm just having fun, doing something I love and getting paid for it. How cool is that?

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Cool

• We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Up
  • World
  • Powerful

• Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • History
  • Light
  • Honor

• I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Why
  • History
  • Freedom

• I do not believe evil men are led by God. I believe there are plots of evil. We live in a sinful world, and there are a lot of things that happen as a result of sin.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • World
  • God
  • Believe

• Each of us has a gift, a talent, that we can offer to the world that makes the world essentially a better place.

  

  James Redfield
  • World

• Ambition, I’ve found, can lead only to failure. I do not read the reviews. No, I am not singing for you.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Singing
  • Failure
  • Ambition

• I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Book
  • Cutting
  • Appreciation

• God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Great
  • God

• 'Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history and around the world. I finally understood how a Middle Eastern souk actually works economically and how to compare that to modern-day telecom-spectrum auctions. I love that book.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • World
  • Book
  • History