"It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading."

-- Mary Archer

#Reading Quotes #Balance Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.”
“Nobody likes to feel like they're on the losing side of anything.”
“Everyone is a buyer, everyone's a potential purchaser and everyone's a potential vendor.”

Source : National Press Club address| Q & A session, jbh.ministers.treasury.gov.au. September 18, 2013 - September 21, 2015.
“We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.”

Source : Elizabeth Janeway (1974). “Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening”, New York : Morrow, 1974, 1975 printing.
“You have a soft spot. Contrary to popular belief, it is not where you are weak, it is the gateway to indestructible power.”

Source : "The Importance of Sadness" by Susan Piver, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 17, 2011.
“The good news is you can get a lot of information off the Internet for free and in a hurry. But I think the breaking up of the media, which is otherwise kind of healthy, has contributed to less actual reporting and a louder, more contentious, more divisive public discourse, highlighting conflict, sometimes falsely.”
“A big mistake people make when they are trying to lose weight is that they stop eating. They'll eat salads once a day and then their body starts trying to protect itself and holds onto the fat.”
“On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order.”

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