"Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid."

-- Upton Sinclair

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“Are you implying that our relationship is like a Spanish soap opera?â€ â€œIâ€™m not implying. Iâ€™m saying it.”
“It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.”
“When you are in a good position you are sure to drive well and to be very concentrated in each corner.”
“I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer - and I didnt want to be either one.”
“It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. God became man; Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the incarnation.”
“Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions. We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment's rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.”
“I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.”
“Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.”

Source : "Jake Gyllenhaal: 'End of Watch changed my life'". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2012.

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