"Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is in a direction that allows terrible follies to happen, and the terrible follies have terrible consequences."

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Charlie Munger

#Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes #Momentum Quotes

“See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places,”

Source : Neal Stephenson (1993). “Snow Crash”, Spectra
“It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.”

Source : Louis Zukofsky (1961). “It was”
“I change myself, I change the world.”
“Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.”
“When you've never had something, you want it worse than anything,”
“It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.”
“You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.”

Source : Lynn Viehl (2009). “Stay the Night: A Novel of the Darkyn”, p.30, Penguin
“To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.”

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