"I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment."

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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“I'm just a beat up old third baseman. I'm just a small part of a wonderful game that is a tremendous part of America today.”
“Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left hand into the darkness. The Dagger of the Thirteenth, a thief's gesture against evil. "Your night is my cloak, my shield, my escape from those who hunt to feed the noose. I will fear no evil, for you have made the night my friend." "Bless the Benefactor," said Jean, squeezing Locke's left forearm. "Peace and profit to his children.”
“Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.”
“Ah, love, let us be true To one another!”
“You know, people really know me from 'The Best Man.' I've done five other movies since then, but it always comes back to 'The Best Man.' It was time to do the sequel.”
“The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity.”

Source : "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Book by Luo Guanzhong (Chapter 1, opening lines), 14th century.
“Like physical work, if you don't practice, you shouldn't expect results.”
“If I listened to my instincts, I'd be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squatting”

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