"Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected."

-- George Soros

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“I found in general, I got involved in that station toward the end of my freshmen year, and I just loved how there's this incredible library of music that I'd never heard of from all over the world and different genres.”
“Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread. The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum.”

Source : Adele Griffin (2008). “My Almost Epic Summer”, p.15, Penguin
“The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.”
“Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.”
“When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they'd need to keep the perimeter. Men respond to and admire the qualities that would make men useful and dependable in an emergency. Men have always had a role apart, and they still judge one another according to the demands of that role as a guardian in a gang struggling for survival against encroaching doom. Everything that is specifically about being a man-not merely a person-has to do with that role.”
“Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways”

Source : Foreword to "Coming of Age in Samoa" by Margaret Mead, 1928.
“Our Onirisme movement was a synthesis between the Romantic Fantastique and Surrealism. Dimov and I rejected automatic writing. We loved surrealist painters: Chirico, Magritte, Tanguy and especially Brauner (also a Romanian), who never respected the laws that Breton imposed in his manifests.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Eva [Braun] and I were never involved in the financial aspects of where [Adolf] Hitler put her up.”

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