"To prefer paper to gold is to prefer high risk to lower risk, instability to stability, inflation to steady long term values, a system of very low grade performance to a system of higher, though not perfect performance."

-- William E. Rees

#Perfect Quotes #Long Quotes #Risk Quotes

“Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.”

Source : Darren Shan (2012). “Vampire Blood Trilogy (The Saga of Darren Shan)”, p.11, HarperCollins UK
“I was in good shape from Divergent. Damien Chazelle, the director of Whiplash told me, â€˜Stop Working Out! Donâ€™t go outside!â€™ He wanted me pale and doughy. This is the first movie where I shut myself off from the world. It was, by far, the hardest thing Iâ€™ve ever done.”
“My wit is like your legs," said Xochi. " It would be selfish of me to keep it hidden.”
“It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.”
“You don't get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks.”
“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I want to be a destroyer that can save people..”
“The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.”

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