"Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians."

-- Joseph J. Ellis

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“I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.”

Source : "Investors Feel The Pain of Lehman Bros. Collapse". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. September 16, 2008.
“Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.”

Source : Griffith Edwards (2013). “Alcohol: The World's Favorite Drug”, p.1, Macmillan
“At the beginning, I felt sort of reluctant about my music from my past. But in the last couple of years, I felt good about what I did in the past. The way I see my work, time passes from the time I performed or recorded a work. When I look at it now, 25 years or 30 years ago, if I see that it has value today, I will agree to release it.”
“He gives me a kiss that barely touches my lips â€“ it means nothing or everything. After heâ€™s gone, I think, Happy birthday to me. Jack says, â€˜That was the guy?â€™ â€˜That was him.â€™ Jake shakes his head. â€˜What?â€™ â€˜Heâ€™s not for you,â€™ he says. I say, â€˜How do you know?â€™ but what I mean is, How do you know? â€˜Heâ€™s like Ashley Wilkes,â€™ he says. â€˜Any one of these guys is Rhett-ier than he is.â€™ Again, I ask my benignly inflected, â€˜How do you know?â€™ â€˜How do I know?â€™ he says, tackling me into a bear hug. â€˜How do I know? I know, thatâ€™s how I know.”
“When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.”
“Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.”

Source : Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (2016). “The Manifesto of Futurism”, p.9, Passerino Editore
“He's a bully. I love bullies. They have such big, shiny red buttons to push.”

Source : Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty and the Silver Bullet”, p.45, Hachette UK
“A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.”

Source : Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1994). “The View from the Kremlin”, HarperCollins

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