"It's an illusion, control," Naomi said. "You ought to understand that by now, young Claire. We are never in control of our destinies, even the strongest of us. All we can hope to do is not be too badly damaged by events."

-- Rachel Caine

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“What is the city but the people?”
“It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and that the decrees therein contained are absolutely true and inviolable. But I should have in your place added that, though Scripture cannot err, its expounders and interpreters are liable to err in many ways; and one error in particular would be most grave and most frequent, if we always stopped short at the literal signification of the words.”
“If you put down a good, solid foundation and build one room after another, pretty soon you have a house. You build in your speedwork, your pace and increase your ability to run races and think races out. Then it's possible to run the way we do.”
“To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.”
“When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.”
“The problem with the British film industry is that it's really the American film industry, or a small branch of in lots of ways because of the common language. But it's great to see some individual voices still there. I think I probably gravitate towards a slightly more European, auteur model rather than the studio thing. I think it would be great if British films were a little bit more auteur driven.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“That is one trouble about trading on a large scale.You cannot sneak out as you can when you pike along.”

Source : Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.130, John Wiley & Sons
“Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.”

Source : "The Right to Be Happy". Book by Dora Russell, p. 241, 1927.

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