"We've run out of good projects. This is not a money issue... If these oil companies had fantastic projects, they'd be out there [developing new fields]."

-- Matthew Simmons

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“Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.”
“Ajax the great Himself a host.”
“Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
“Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into a direct and immediate relationship with their constituents, and therefore under more and direct and immediate control.”

Source : "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 1, Leaders and Followers, p. 18, 1985.
“As a matter of fact, if we could communicate the truth, not only to the Hispanics but to the black population, all blacks should be Republican, and all Hispanics should be Republican.”
“The book known by the name of the Apocalypse, has seemed to be until now unintelligible, merely because people persisted to see in it a real prediction of the future, which every one has explained after his own fashion, and in which they have always found what they wanted, namely anything but that, what the book contained.”

Source : Charles François Dupuis (2016). “The Origin of all Religious Worship”, p.372, Lulu.com
“The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed.”
“God, like all highest things, Hides light in shade, And in the night his visitings To sleep and dreams are clearliest made.”

Source : Arthur Symons (1909). “Poems”

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