"A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings."

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Source : Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan (2012). “The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope”, p.328, Haymarket Books

Amy Goodman

#Taken Quotes #Typical Quotes #Earning Quotes

“I have always been interested in conducting research that yielded new methods by which to make cloth, and in developing new materials that combine craftsmanship and new technology. But the most important thing for me is to show that, ultimately, technology is not the most important tool; it is our brains, our thoughts, our hands, our bodies, which express the most essential things.”
“If your activities don't match your priorities, you are wasting your life.”
“Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons.”
“The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford.”

Source : Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.248, Simon and Schuster
“I think Jeremiah is for our times. But whether the church in the west will listen to the Word of God today any more than in the chaos of 7th century BC middle east... Only God knows.”

Source : Source: www.patheos.com
“Tim was dead. And he's always been a loser. I'd be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser - or anyone else.”
“What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.”
“As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?”

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