"When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast meetings. These are America's three great contributions to civilization."

-- Mervyn King

#Learning Quotes #Years Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“I wanted to write you a story about magic. I wanted rabbits appearing from hats. I wanted balloons lifting you into the sky. It turned out to be nothing but sadness, war, heartbreak. You never saw it, but thereâ€™s a garden inside me.”

Source : Shane Jones (2010). “Light Boxes: A Novel”, p.54, Penguin
“I grew up in a difficult environment, but I became a Christian as a teen. My mom and my sister soon became Christians also.”
“Knowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock's proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information, is sound judgment.”
“All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.”
“There's a phrase we live by in America: "In God We Trust". It's right there where Jesus would want it: on our money.”
“There is a tradition of "modernist" theology arising out of post-Kantian thought - Fichte was the real father of it, but Schleiermacher and others also developed it - which might have more promise if it had greater influence on popular religion.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“There is no such thing as a future decision. There are only present decisions that affect the future.”

Source : Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster
“So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.”

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