"It is unlikely that God's plan for the universe includes making you rich."

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Source : Max Gunther (2005). “The Zurich Axioms: The rules of risk and reward used by generations of Swiss bankers”, p.103, Harriman House Limited

Max Gunther

#Rich Quotes #Unlikely Quotes

“Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.”
“Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic.”

Source : E. F. Benson (2015). “The Collected Works of E. F. Benson (Illustrated): Dodo Trilogy, Queen Lucia, Miss Mapp, David Blaize, The Room in The Tower, Paying Guests, The Relentless City, The Angel of Pain, The Rubicon and more”, p.136, e-artnow
“I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.”
“The great moral question of the 21st century is this: if all knowing, all culture, all art, all useful information can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone; if everyone can have everything, anywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone?”

Source : "Eben Moglen: The dotCommunist Manifesto". Eben Moglen's speech at the Howard W. Odum Institute for Social Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, November 8, 2001.
“Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a typewriter and write short stories or anything like that. I started writing songs as a way of communicating ideas the best way I could.”
“Today I want to belong. I want to feel safe and at home. I want to be aware of what it is like simply to be, without defenses or desires. I will appreciate the flow of life for what it is-my own true self. I will notice those moments of intimacy with myself, when I feel that â€œI amâ€ is enough to sustain me forever. I will lie on the grass at one with nature, expanding until my being fades into the infinite.”
“This was too much. "I refuse. I absolutely REFUSE to be an onion.”

Source : Louise Fitzhugh (2009). “Harriet the Spy”, p.137, Yearling
“The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.”

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