Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Quotes
The capitalist system is not delivering those decade-after-decade increases it promised. We're not where we should be in terms of our national economies. We don't know how to get out of this malaise and I think we now have to consider more radical policies.
Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
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I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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If you do see me in a restaurant, please, just let me eat my dinner.
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It was a pass out into the flat. I saw the ball pop out and scooped it up on the first try. I got lucky.
Eddie Charles Jones
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Jimmy Buffett
Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.
Oscar Wilde
Self-love is even deceived by self-love, because by looking out for our own interests and disregarding those of other people, we lose the advantage that comes with the exchange of favors.
Madeleine de Souvre
If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution.
William S. Burroughs
Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.
William Shakespeare
