"Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low, Iranian reformers have been ascendant and radicals relatively subdued, and vice versa when prices have been high."

-- James Surowiecki

#Iran Quotes #Oil Quotes #Vices Quotes

“You don't want the office to be a completely relaxing place. You want it to be a vibrant place.”
“I don't like that we repeat a certain expression over and over again because I think it narrows the way that we look on the world. I also think that there is a certain responsibility if you work with moving images because it's so strong in creating behaviour; it's so strong in creating the way that we look on the world, so for me it's very important that I create images that I have an experience of or is something that I think exists in the world and not just in cinema.”
“My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.”
“Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.”
“God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!”
“Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.”
“The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.”
“I enjoyed the opportunities, but there was no time to think.”

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