"Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart."

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Source : "Q&A with Alan Greenspan: ‘Did we make mistakes? You bet’". Interview with Martin Crutsinger, www.seattletimes.com. October 21, 2013.

Alan Greenspan

#Fall Quotes #Looks Quotes #Causes Quotes

“I grew up in the suburbs, and I listened to hip-hop for the right reasons, which was to understand a culture that was beyond mine, and to understand what was going on in places outside of my sheltered bubble.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“If we're all God's children, what's so special about Jesus?”
“It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting that I discovered I was crying.”
“Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chungâ€™s work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out againâ€¦in Messiaen, a feeling for the musicâ€™s reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance.”
“In his wolf-skin he was as strong as any of them, but he was a gentle person in many ways. He'd feel so bad about failing he'd probably step aside for someone else without a fight.”

Source : Annette Curtis Klause (2007). “Blood and Chocolate”, p.112, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.”

Source : Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd
“I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.”
“Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine. But do I? Am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago.”

Source : "Rob Ford's crack use - in his own words". www.cbc.ca. November 5, 2013.

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