"As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money."

-- Martin Cruz Smith

#Giving Quotes #People Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I enjoy myself a lot but I derive more joy in working. I believe in hard work and one of my business success secrets is hard work. It's hard to see a youth that will go to bed by 2am and wake up by 5am. I don't rest until I achieve something.”
“Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.”
“What is perceptible to oneâ€™s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring sameness of it, the pre-formations passed down by generation after generation, the ready-made language not only of the tongue but also of the sensations and the feelings.”
“When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description.”

Source : "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.
“I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.”
“For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.”
“Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place.”
“Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.”

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