"Show me a first-generatio n fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist, the commons."

-- William H. Gates, Sr.

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“I am not a bloody ghoda running a race that you give me a tag. I am competitive, and the reason for that is that I want to do the best films.”
“This summer-sweet night is only one minute upon one minute upon another Beautiful cacophony, sugar upon lips, dancing to exhaustion I thought of you, before this minute upon another minute upon another Until, numb, my lips fell onto the mouth of another, and I was undone. ~from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter which is a fictional book in Ballad: A gathering of faerie”
“But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.”

Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.30, Penguin
“I was always the clown in school. I had a personal put down sense of humor. I wasn't vindictive. I didn't make fun of people.”
“One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, Mama I want to be a painter.”
“Your mind is totally controlled, it has been stuffed into my mold. And you will do as you are told, until the rights to you are sold.”
“I love the old stuff that's why I included it. I did see them play a lot as they supported the Banshees all the time. And I was a friend of the Banshees so I used to get there early to see the Ants and while the Banshees were on I used to like to go in their dressing room and steal their booze!”
“Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York.”

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