"People are pretty simple: they do what they are rewarded for doing. If they get multimillion-dollar bonuses by taking huge risks with other people's money - as they still do - then they will continue to take those huge risks, and not give it another thought."

-- William D. Cohan

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“If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually dwindle.”
“Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.”

Source : Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.153, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
“Im open-minded. I dont consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. Ive had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.”
“Fake news is a product of the internet that is not transparent. Fake news can spread online because as users we have no idea where any of the content we see comes from.”
“... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.”
“I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.”
“I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.”

Source : "A life in the arts: Simon Callow" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. December 24, 2011.
“The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth - that billions of consumers in India & China will one day enjoy the lifestyles of Europeans and Americans - is as absurd & dangerous a fantasy as anything dreamt up by Al-Qaeda. It condemns the global environment to early destruction & looks set to create reservoirs of nihilistic rage & disappointment among hundreds of millions of have-nots - the bitter outcome of the universal triumph of Western Modernity, which turns the revenge of the East into something darkly ambiguous, and all its victories truly Pyrrhic.”

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