"When someone succeeded in quickly making a lot of money in America, people said he had made his fortune."

-- Julius Streicher

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“An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.”
“I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else's eyes.”
“I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.”
“Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.”
“Iâ€™ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better.”
“Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die.”
“The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.”
“The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.”

Source : "Buy Shanghai!" by Patricia Marx, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2008.

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