"People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too."

-- Christopher Morley

#Moving Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.”
“The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.”
“Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.”
“I always wear my evil eye necklace to ward off bad karma. I always wear one to protect me.”
“Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.”
“The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a purely utilitarian point of view as the road to money, not as the gateway to wisdom.”
“I'm a big believer that it doesn't matter what you call your company, nobody ever notices.”

Source : "Director Matthew Vaughn talks Layer Cake and X-Men 3". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. May 10, 2005.
“Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.”

Source : "The joy of text" by Will Self, Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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