"Culture and, within culture, music are the best and most fascinating thing that the German capital has to offer internationally. It is putting that at risk."

-- Simon Rattle

#Risk Quotes #Culture Quotes #Offers Quotes

“The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”

Source : Quoted in Gustave M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947).
“Americans appreciate the way our friends around the world are sticking by us, and we all hope for their continued support in what's going to be some very trying times.”
“I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.”
“New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. To think of 'living' there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not 'live' at Xanadu.”
“The fears of recession in the aftermath of Black Monday have turned to fears of the economy racing ahead too fast, with inflation edging up and a substantial current account deficit...people understandably feel more confident about their future than they've done for decades, but as a result they have been borrowing more and saving less...coming on top of a massive income investment boom, it's all been just a bit too much of a good thing.”

Source : Speech to the Conservative Party Conference, October 13, 1988.
“It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.”

Source : Lyman Abbott (1899). “The Life that Really is”
“It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.”

Source : Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.143, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“If it doesn't happen, the continuing oppression will be met by more resistance from a less tolerant populace which wants a democratic restoration. And that resistance will only invite further oppression.”

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