"No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily - or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play."

-- Edwin Lefevre

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“It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right to make our laws. But why blame the Jews? It is we who lack all feeling for our own identity, all sense of honour.”

Source : Diary entry for November 14, 1878. "Cosima Wagner's Diaries: An Abridgment". Book edited by Geoffrey Skelton, 1994.
“what red lips you have," he said in her ear. Did she dare say it? "All the better to kiss you with, my dear," she replied. And then their lips met.”

Source : Annette Curtis Klause (2007). “Blood and Chocolate”, p.51, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“Too much good taste can be boring”
“I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult.”
“Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.”

Source : Colin Ward (2004). “Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction”, p.2, Oxford University Press
“For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake of more wealth as a man would about admitting that he had accepted an invitation just for the sake of the food. This is one of humanity's most profound imbecilities, as perhaps the only justification for asking one's fellowmen to endure the horrors of war would be the knowledge that if they did not fight they would starve.”
“You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out.”

Source : "Resignation and postmortem". www.jwz.org. March 31, 1999.
“It is the incongruous thing in my entire life, this isolation.. ..My work requires it - but I myself have no need or use for it - Perhaps once on a time I found isolation imperative - I think all chrysalides do - all embryos go for the underside of the leaf in the time of body-change preparing for the final reassertion -resurrection - the establishment of the entity. But now I've come up tot the outside of my casements.”

Source : "Marsden Hartley". Book by Gail R. Scott, p. 151, 1988.

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