"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."

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Source : Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4177, Simon and Schuster

Ernest Hemingway

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“Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.”
“I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.”
“There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.”
“I'm never afraid to try something if I think it's funny. And I know I'll regret it if I don't.”
“And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.”
“I'm always trying to be the best, on and off the pitch, is also very important. I've always taken things very seriously, since I was very young, and that's reflected in my career. Always being nominated, winning trophies for the club or individual awards, that's the culmination of many years of dedication, hard work and professionalism and that makes me very happy.”
“Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]”
“A number of U.S. colleges are going to start having dorms for alcoholics. I believe those are called dorms.”

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