"A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious."

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Source : Rachel Kushner (2014). “The Flamethrowers: A Novel”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

Rachel Kushner

#Men Quotes #Funny Things Quotes #Machines Quotes

“It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.”
“It has been determined by Islamic law that the blood and property of people of Dar Al-Harb (non Muslims) is not protected. Because they fight against and are hostile towards the Muslims, they annulled the protection of his blood and his property.”
“No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.”

Source : Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”
“The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.”
“Things like Kitchen Cabinet, I'm not sure they necessarily tell the Australian people whether you have judgement, whether you have discernment, whether you have intellectual acuity, whether you are able to develop policy, whether you are able to represent individual cases to the highest levels of government successfully and in a manner that actually achieves outcomes.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“In a small Swiss city sits an international organization so obscure and secretive....Control of the institution, the Bank for International Settlements, lies with some of the world's most powerful and least visible men: the heads of 32 central banks, officials able to shift billions of dollars and alter the course of economies at the stroke of a pen.”

Source : "INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS; Obscure Global Bank Moves Into the Light". www.nytimes.com. August 5, 1995.
“Imagine a history teacher making history,”
“Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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