"Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .â€™ He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. â€˜They change back."

-- Joe Abercrombie

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“For a small open economy that trades mostly with the euro zone it makes absolute sense to be part of the currency union. Our currency has already pegged to the euro since 2002. We don't have an independent monetary policy. We are regulated by the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, but we are not able to reap all the profits. Our businesses want to save the transaction costs.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 142-44, speech at Southwick (Jan. 15, 1906), 1922.
“My first word for the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen.”
“Capital investment in fixed assets that produce real goods is the actual driver of long term economic growth, and until slick financiers hijacked the country with 'new economy' mumbo-jumbo based on computer models and hype most Americans understood this.”
“Selfless giving is a guaranteed way to increase feelings of love.”
“Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.”
“This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.”
“Please remember that your greatest talent is so much more powerful than your biggest fear.”

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