"A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities."

-- Harry Markopolos

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“The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.”

Source : Speech to the Penguins, 1949.
“Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.”
“Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.”
“if you take passionate interest in a subject, it is hard not to believe yourself specially equipped for it.”

Source : Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”
“That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black walls of my houseâ€¦.Took three months before I even looked out the window, see the world still there. I was surprised to see the world didnâ€™t stop.”
“So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.”
“I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book, in other words, the way one prunes a tree-so it can grow. This is my idea of a book.”
“Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.”

Source : Will Oldham (2012). “Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy”, p.5, W. W. Norton & Company

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