"The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia."

-- Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

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“It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.”

Source : "Vin Diesel: I Want To Be A Good Dad". Interview, parade.com. August 25, 2008.
“At the core of an analytical edge is an ability to systematically distinguish between fundamentals and expectations. Fundamentals are a well thought out distribution of outcomes, and expectations are what's priced into an asset. A power metaphor is the [pari-mutuel] racetrack. The fundamentals are how fast a given horse will run and the expectations are the odds on the tote board. As any serious handicapper knows, you make money only by finding a mispricing between the performance of the horse and the odds. There are no 'good' or 'bad' horses, just correctly or incorrectly priced ones.”
“When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.”
“The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.”
“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”
“Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can hit you, it's hit me when it comes to you.”

Source : Nora Roberts (2009). “Black Hills”, p.296, Penguin
“I always said 'yes' to everything.”
“You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth is less likely to be produced when people see that it is going to be confiscated.”

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