"They [the US] get our oil and give us a worthless piece of paper."

-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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“Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.”
“A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.”

Source : Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner
“Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion.”
“If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.”
“I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.”

Source : Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Moisés Puente (2008). “Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe”, p.56, Princeton Architectural Press
“In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model; our artifacts tell more about ourselves than our confessions.”
“The paradox is that, while a concern with past and future is obviously central to psychological functioning, to behave as though one were indeed in the past or future, as many do, pollutes the lively possibilities of existence.”

Source : Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). “Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice”
“Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.”

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