"The entire banking movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked, ideologically and personally, with one another."

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Source : Gabriel Kolko (2008). “Triumph of Conservatism”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

Gabriel Kolko

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“I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it.”
“If age teaches you anything, then one of its lessons is certainly not to hurry if you're already late....”
“My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.”
“We have lived through some unforgettable times together, some good, some bad, achieving results that will be hard to equal.”
“I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.”

Source : "Friendship Village Love Stories".
“When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.”
“The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) new Summary for Policymakers is a political document that downplays assessments of uncertainty from the scientific reports. It omits much contrary evidence. In several cases, it even disagrees with the reports on which it is based.”

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