"Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief."

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Jane Austen

#Vanity Quotes #Weak Quotes #Produce Quotes

“Something out of the ordinary course of business is taking place that creates an investment opportunity. The list of corporate events that can result in big profits for you runs the gamutâ€”spinoffs, mergers, restructurings, rights offerings, bankruptcies, liquidations, asset sales, distributions.”
“People are irrational - and predictably so.”
“If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.”
“Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation.”

Source : Murray N. Rothbard (2004). “Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition”, p.1256, Ludwig von Mises Institute
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”

Source : Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, on June 07, 1945. "Patton, ordeal and triumph". Book by Ladislas Farago, 1963.
“All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and luck. And even should the artist or scientist think she has extracted herself from the world to stand alone in the studio, a tremendous array of faculties and mind-states may well attend her creativity.”

Source : Lewis Hyde (2010). “Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership”, p.5, Macmillan
“It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.”
“Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights, a compromised system, a beetle, as in the now dying black timber on the mountains.”

Source : Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.68, Vintage

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