"Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning."

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Source : "Wall Street Has a Gambling Problem" by Sen. Maria Cantwell, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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“What was supposed to be so special about a full moon? It was only a big circle of light. And the dark of the moon was only darkness. But halfway between the two, when the moon was between the worlds of light and dark, when even the moon lived on the edge...maybe then a witch could believe in the moon.”
“The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.”
“If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.”

Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton
“I'm sorry about your face." Jamie looked over his shoulder, and touched the demon's mark crawling along his jaw with the back of his hand. "Sorry about saving all our lives by doing something you had to do?" "Oh no," Nick said blandly. "I just meant, you know. Generally.”
“One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.”

Source : "Child abuse as entertainment" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.
“I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.”

Source : "Tribeca Film Festival Interview: Monogamous with Zak Orth". Interview with Caitlin Colford, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2010.
“I do not remember where I read that there are two kinds of poets: the good poets, who at a certain point destroy their bad poems and go off to run guns in Africa, and the bad poets, who publish theirs and keep writing more until they die.”
“Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, A. R. Waller (2014). “Poems”, p.413, Cambridge University Press

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