"The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.”

Source : William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.137
“Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.”
“Your life is about everyone whose life you touch, and it is about the way in which you touch them.”
“The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run.”

Source : "What's in your basket, Vince Cable?" by Rebecca Seal and Dr John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.
“The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything.”
“Like most Americans, I live in the line of fire of a shooting match that is going on over Reagan's legacy. It's between shrill and extremist voices who alternately conceive of him either as an icon of all that's great and good or a representative of everything that's gone wrong with this country. And obviously neither is the case. He is just a man.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Most of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to "save" our way to capital ownership.”
“There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person.”

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