Carlo Wolff Quotes
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The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Having an open mind does not necessarily lead to perfection. It is your ability to observe, analyze, discern, and understand the true essence that basic principles contain that point the way to perfection.
Ed Parker -
Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.
Oscar Wilde -
At a very early stage of the novel's development I get this urge to collect bits of straw and fluff, and to eat pebbles. Nobody will ever discover how clearly a bird visualizes, or if it visualizes at all, the future nest and the eggs in it.
Vladimir Nabokov -
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
William Hazlitt -
Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators.
Adolf Hitler
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Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.
William Watson -
When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.
Rudyard Kipling -
I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.
Miguel de Cervantes -
As Martin noted, to the detectives conducting his interview, it was a good thing he'd been inebriated, because otherwise he would have wasted time screaming and running about - especially once he realized he was standing in a pool of blood. Instead, with the slow methodical patience of the drunk and terrified, Martin Turner dialed 999 and asked for the police.
Ben Aaronovitch -
When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew that nobody was listening at the time and that it wouldn't hurt to challenge myself and get weirder and see if I could alienate more people
Colin Meloy -
The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.
Ivor Novello
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Seven daughters was never part of my plan.
Jonathan Franklin -
Green production is certainly an important topic for newspapers. Environmental considerations are part of every enquiry today and come into most aspects of equipment specification. On balance, however, cost-effectiveness is a more urgent requirement for most print organisations.
Eric Bell Thin Lizzy -
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
Bela Lugosi -
Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have no control over...The most important factor you can keep in your own hands is yourself. I always placed the greatest emphasis on that.
Eddy Merckx -
An engaging, blow-by-blow account of the infancy of the Obama presidency. . . . Manna for political junkies. . . . Thoroughly researched . . . humanizes a figure considered periodically out-of-touch even by some of his admirers.
Carlo Wolff