"For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only money."

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Source : Kamala Markandaya (1954). “Nectar in a Sieve: A Novel”

Kamala Markandaya

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“He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.”
“If I read a script and find it engaging and I start making choices in my mind on how to approach the work, than that's a good indication that it is something worth pursuing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you look at most of the Royal Houses in Europe, the inbreeding was pretty outstanding.”

Source : "Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: Jaime isn’t a psychopath. He’s a realist". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. May 13, 2011.
“Camping has become one of my most beloved pastimes. I take a fierce delight in swinging a pak o my back or into a canoe and heading for the hills or lakes. In my opinion, camping can be the greatest expression of free will, personal independence, innate ability, and resourcefulness possible today in our industrialized, urbanized existence. Regardless of how miserable or how splendid the circumstances, the sheer experience of camping seems a total justification for doing it.”
“The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.”

Source : Tim Lebbon (2013). “Into the Void: Star Wars Legends (Dawn of the Jedi)”, p.22, Del Rey
“The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.”
“The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.”
“Now, six months after he sent the military back into combat to take on the terror group calling itself the Islamic State, Mr. Obama has acquiesced and sent a measure to Congress asking it to formally authorize what he has been doing all along. And now that they have gotten what they asked for, few in Congress seem all that enthusiastic about the prospect.”

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