"A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges."

-- Benjamin Franklin

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“With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.”

Source : Nassau William Senior (1836). “An Outline of the Science of Political Economy”, p.130
“The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I usually work with the director and it's just a collaboration between me and the one person. I think you make good movies that way. If the director and the composer can have this common goal and this excitement about making something great, then you're going to do something good.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.”
“The world is what YOU think of it, so think of it DIFFERENTLY and your life will change.”
“Focus on what you're grateful for in your life. If you don't appreciate what you have, you won't get any more... because the universe thinks it's not important to you, and therefore you don't need any more.”

Source : FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Oct 16, 2012
“A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.”

Source : Tony Kushner (1995). “Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness: Essays, A Play, Two Poems and a Prayer”, p.61, Theatre Communications Group
“Since 2005, when the French and the Dutch voted "no" on a constitution for Europe, nobody has developed a real project for the EU. And certainly not France. If there were ideas, they came from Wolfgang SchÃ¤uble or Joschka Fischer, and these German ideas were downright quashed by France. I want to put an end to that.”

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