"Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars."

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Source : Nancy Mitford, Alan Strode Campbell Ross (1956). “Noblesse oblige: an enquiry into the identifiable characteristics of the English aristocracy”, Hamish Hamilton

Nancy Mitford

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“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.”
“I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act.”
“The Obama administration believes in experts and blue-ribbon panels. They believe in creating new agencies and boards. They believe in all that, but they just don't trust the entrepreneur's ability to grow her own business and to create jobs.”
“I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpoint or at least nail down feelings I'm having and that I've had for the last however long. I need to nail them down long enough to actually write about and elaborate on them.”
“To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.”
“In my opinion, the continued popularity of these gross distortions of Iran in the U.S. seems to reveal more about certain aspects of America than about Iran. It seems that the popularity of these memoirs is largely due to the fact that, while claiming to do the opposite, they regularly reinforce the dominant representations of Iran in America by constructing an exotic, backward, and barbaric Iran principally based on U.S. archives.”
“The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness”

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