"In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety."

-- Karl Marx

#Fall Quotes #Safety Quotes #Gold Quotes

“Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle.”

Source : "A Probe for Fine Structure of Biologic Systems". Rosalyn Sussman Yalow's Nobel Lecture in Stockholm, Sweden, December 8, 1977.
“Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.”

Source : Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl
“I've always viewed my career with some suspicion, like I don't want to count on it to be the only thing I do. Partly that has to do with feeling like an imposter, like we all do sometimes, and partly I like doing other things, and being a full-time artist takes a focus I recognise I don't have.”

Source : Source: www.independent.co.uk
“On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?”
“Today, basically, on Wall Street, the big money is made by taking risks.”
“The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind.”
“Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.”
“If you play men, in a way it's easier. You can have a voicebox, you can have false hair, mustaches, wigs, you can have all kinds of stuff. But when you're playing women playing men, you only really have yourself to work with, plus tiny little extras.”

Source : "Up Close With 2011’s Oscar Women: Glenn Close, Carey Mulligan, Tilda Swinton". Interview with Steve Pond, www.thewrap.com. November 25, 2011.

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