"The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man."

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Source : Niall Ferguson (2008). “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World”, p.9, Penguin

Niall Ferguson

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“If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.”
“Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.”
“All sporting ambition considered, there should always be a relationship to Germany.”
“The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. Thats the backdrop of most of my novels - what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger.”
“Repealing drug laws would remove the risks involved with producing and distributing drugs, bringing 'street prices' crashing down (it's estimated that a 'spoon' of ***** would cost about a quarter in the free market), thereby eradicating any incentive that criminals might have to compete with legitimate businesses, and greatly reducing if not eliminating altogether any economic reason to ' push ' drugs on children.”
“We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.”
“I am not interested in politics at all. At home, around the dinner table, we never discuss politics.”
“We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly--as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth--the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives”

Source : John Irving (2012). “The World According To Garp”, p.604, Random House

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