"That day the U.S. announced that the dollar would be devalued by 10 percent. By switching the yen to a floating exchange rate, the Japanese currency appreciated, and a sufficient realignment in exchange rates was realized. Joint intervention in gold sales to prevent a steep rise in the price of gold, however, was not undertaken. That was a mistake."

-- Paul Volcker

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“If everybody would agree that their current reality is A reality, and that what we essentially share is our capacity for constructing a reality, then perhaps we could all agree on a meta-agreement for computing a reality that would mean survival and dignity for everyone on the planet, rather than each group being sold on a particular way of doing things.”

Source : "The Coevolution quarterly". "The Coevolution quarterly", Nr. 8-12, p. 31, ed. Anne Waldman, 1975.
“I did, I'd say, at least about 80 percent of the rest of the driving, and I had the time of my life.”
“I've never thought of my poems as violent. Violence, to me, has so much negativity attached to it - maybe that's my trouble with the word. But ferocious - indeed, I'll take it. And yes, poetry does need a bit of ferocity. Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity - the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.”
“Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.”
“No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.”

Source : "Self-Culture" (address), Boston, Mass., Sept. 1838
“We are not America. We are Afghanistan.”

Source : "Karzai on the cost of the war, his relationship with Pres. Obama and more". "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. May 21, 2012.
“The forces of things, the beings of the Universe, interpenetrate, divide and unite themselves according to eternal laws. But the laws of Nature are, to speak after the manner of men, Thoughts of God, in which all lives, that is to say, He is.”

Source : "Tales from the German of Heinrich Zschokke".
“Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distaste, brotherhood and all the subtleties that we all know...”

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