"I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically."

-- Ben Bernanke

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“Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.”
“In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.”

Source : "Vera Farmiga: A Woman We Love" by Stephen Garrett, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2007.
“Chess is, above all, a fight.”
“My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand, which I loved. But then I didn't actually play on my own for about 30 years.”
“If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself.”
“People were as they were, not not as he wished them to be.”
“I suppose the most radical part of my teaching at present is that love is not a feeling. Everybody suffers from love, or the fear of it, or the lack of it. Why? Why is love so universally and inevitably heart-breaking, whether it be through the end of a love affair, the death of a loved one or being locked in with the habitual casualness or grim indifference of a partner? The answer is because we've been taught and conditioned by the world to believe that love is a feeling.”

Source : "Love is not a feeling". "What is Enlightenment", Volume 4, Number 2, 1995.
“To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.”

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