"It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancÃ©es whom they have never seen."

-- Enoch Powell

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“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
“I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.”

Source : "This much I know: Dave Stewart". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2012.
“Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries. A foreign investor picks up a yield spread in Treasurys versus their own sovereigns, plus the fact that if the dollar is going to continue rallying - and I think it will because it's a safe haven - then they get a currency translation gain as well.”
“People are quite frequently eccentric.”
“Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.”
“Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.”
“I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear.”
“The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in every case the two pillars of nihilism and mysticism.”

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