"The four most dangerous words in finance are 'this time is different.' Thanks to this masterpiece by Carmen Reinhart at the University of Maryland and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard, no one can doubt this again. . . . The authors have put an immense amount of work into collecting the data financial institutions needed if they were to have any chance of making quantitative risk management work."

-- Martin Wolf

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“But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.”

Source : "An Interview with Space Artist Astronaut Alan Bean". Interview with Jim Plakco, www.artsnova.com. October 3, 1992.
“Iâ€™m not saying we had a playroom, but Iâ€™m not shocked by [the sex in the book]. Itâ€™s essential to tell the story. I canâ€™t believe films that donâ€™t invoke a sexual side of it. So it works for me.”
“The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”

Source : Henrik Ibsen (2016). “An Enemy of the People”, p.125, Henrik Ibsen
“When I was a kid I thought I saw a ghost in the forest when I was on a bush walk, like a walk through the forest. I saw something weird pass from one side of the track to the other, and it was sort of a white, blurry... it's hard to describe, really, something that was almost see-through but it just moved in front of me. It was definitely something you could tell was there, and it really freaked me out. I think I was probably 10, and I ran all the way home.”
“My grandmother always acted in other people's interests, whether they wanted her to or not. If they'd had an Olympics in martyrdom my grandmother would have lost on purpose.”
“Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet.”
“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.”
“Still, it would have been great, just once, to have a man stare at her with total adoration. To have him be... enthralled. Yes, that was the word. She would have loved for a man to be enthralled by her.”

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