"In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market - the executives would get to loot their own firms once, then they'd be looking for jobs again."

-- Matt Taibbi

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“I absolutely love being a mother. It's been a blessing. It's fun and it's hard, but it's absolutely amazing.”
“I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.”

Source : FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Nov 14, 2013
“The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.”
“We had so many dreams as children. Where do they go when we grow? Are they swallowed up by the mundane things of everyday life? Or do we lose them, leave them behind us in the dust, for new children to find and take up?”
“People will go to endless trouble to divorce one person and then marry someone who is exactly the same, except probably a bit poorer and a bit nastier. I don't think anybody learns anything.”

Source : "Rumpole creator Mortimer dies at 85" by Sam Marsden and Chris Moncrieff, January 16, 2009.
“I have a good sense of direction.”
“I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make it through life. Indeed if I were required to make a sharp division in the very nature of people, I would be tempted to make it there: readers and nonreaders of books... It is astonishing how the presence or absence of this habit so consistently characterizes an individual in other respects; it is as though it were a kind of barometer of temperament, of personality, even of character. Aside from that, for me it constituted something like sanity insurance.”

Source : William Brinkley (2013). “The Last Ship: A Novel”, p.65, Penguin
“I know our kids will be OK, as long as they listen more to their mother than to me!”

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