"It appears to me that no one has learned a thing; that Wall Street is still operating as if 2008 never happened."

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Source : "How Goldman Envy Destroyed MF Global" by Monika Mitchell, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2011.

Collin Peterson

#Wall Quotes #Streets Quotes #Stills Quotes

“To me, part of being an emcee is dedicated to speaking out about what's going on around us.”
“The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects - his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity.”
“I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press had not been there.”
“We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect. A planetist puts the earth ahead of the earthlings.”
“We deny the right of any portion of the species to decide for another portion what is and what is not their 'proper sphere.' The proper sphere for all human beings is the largest and highest which they are able to attain to.”

Source : John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill (2015). “Essays on Sex Equality”, p.100, University of Chicago Press
“Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs.”

Source : "Nuremberg Diary". Book by G. M. Gilbert, 1995.
“I donâ€™t often know who should read what book. Itâ€™s a little bit like trying to set people up on a date - a good match is unpredictable and mysterious.”
“Because we take these huge long breaks, and then I just kind go, "Okay, fine, this is the way that I've chosen to live my life, and if the band now fades into obscurity, so be it, that's my decision." But then we come back and it's still as big as ever, or bigger. It's always been a surprise to me, that it worked out that way.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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