"Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside."

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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“No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.”

Source : "The New York Comics And Picture-story Symposium: Jennifer George And Charles Kochman", therumpus.net. March 4, 2014.
“Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.”
“The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.”
“The studios knew how to build a star, and they knew what to do with you. They also taught you everything.”
“I was at a really low point, thinking of going to university and doing a course because the music thing just wasn't happening for me. But I went on the show and...”
“My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too. None of us wanted Ringo. Or even worse, George.”

Source : Ann Hood (2009). “Comfort: A Journey Through Grief”, p.66, W. W. Norton & Company
“We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.”
“I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.”

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