"Providing reserves and exchanges for the whole world is too much for one country and one currency to bear."

-- Henry H. Fowler

#Country Quotes #World Quotes #Too Much Quotes

“George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.”
“There are still hungry people in Ethiopia, but they are hungry because they have no money, no longer because there is no food to buy... we strongly resent the abuse of our poverty to sway the interests of the European public.”
“Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.”
“I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before.”

Source : John Bunyan, John Stachniewski, Anita Pacheco (1998). “Grace Abounding with Other Spiritual Autobiographies”, p.274, Oxford University Press, USA
“Ages employed in making history have no time for studying it.”

Source : Solomon Schechter (1970). “Studies in Judaism: Essays on Persons, Concepts, and Movements of Thought in Jewish Tradition”
“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
“Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new.”
“The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.”

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