"It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making"

-- Alan Greenspan

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“One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control--to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic. The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient's control over every interaction.”
“In Italy, I am almost seen as German for my workaholism. Also I am from Milan, the city where people work the hardest. Work, work, work - I am almost German.”
“The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.”

Source : Uncommon Law (1935) "Is Marriage Lawful?"
“If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.”
“I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.”
“When I was in high school, I had binders with pictures of tour buses.”
“We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.”
“I'm 82 years old, wherever I go everybody knows me, but here's why... I'm a merchandiser, I'm not just a writer, I stay in every avenue you can think of.”

Source : Interview with Michael Carlson, Crime Time, 2001.

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