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Related We are the books we read and the things we love. CATH CROWLEY You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you. MICHAEL PRYOR I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become. EMMA PAUL It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru... SUDHIR KAKAR If you argue with a fool, you become a fool. L.A. HILDEN Everyday is another chance to do something great. EMMA PAUL You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm! COLETTE there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely ... OSCAR WILDE I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they... PHILIP HENSHER Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself. MEG CABOT I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what. JENNIFER NIVEN 2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't. JASPER FFORDE Maxim 1: Pillage, then burn. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Merc... HOWARD TAYLER Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there ... CASSANDRA CLARE A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life: 1. Never put off to tomorrow wha... THOMAS JEFFERSON You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults,... SUDHIR KAKAR The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experi... LIBBA BRAY Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in th... SARAH MACLEAN Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE! TANYA MASSE We created the Wind Power by Pembina program to help individuals, corporations and governments alike... MARLO RAYNOLDS Maxim 2: A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on. HOWARD TAYLER Honor from death,” I snap, “is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. I... RAE CARSON Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you ... LEE CHILD Humor and joy contribute to my total well-being. LOUISE L. HAY Life IS the gift you were given, So stop waiting around for your dues. Use it wisely and y... MICHELLE GEANEY To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster. STIRLING MOSS People gave us a purpose. Something to do all day, every day. At the end, I suppose, you spend a lot... C. ROBERT CARGILL With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them exis... TOSHIHIKO FUKUI Money is only a human invention. VANNA BONTA Shelley, you’re just like that oyster.” God confronted me on the deeper areas of my life that I ... SHELLEY LUBBEN Actions speak in volume while words are but a mere whisper in a violent wind TAURUS MORGAN In a world of words, anything is possible... LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less. -The Seventy... HOWARD TAYLER Maxim 16: Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth. -The Seventy M... HOWARD TAYLER First rule of thievery,' Eli said, grinning, 'only run if you're not coming back.' (...) 'First rule... RACHEL AARON Things it helps me to remember When in a bad mood, keep quiet or still. Baggy jumpers don�... AIDAN CHAMBERS ...I applied her rule to my life; after all, we are all searching for them, the rules. We pick them ... RACHEL JOYCE Who am I?" she snaps. "I am America, Israel, England! What am I doing?" She waits another long momen... DIANA ABU-JABER I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years HENRY MOORE The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO Bulk of today's consumer credit expansion has been driven by mainly foreign banks tempting people to... AJITH FERNANDO Never underestimate the power of giving a book! CARMELA DUTRA Love is holy. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART Maxim 18: If the officers are leading from in front, watch out for an attack from the rear. HOWARD TAYLER It is not enough to conquer, one must [also] learn to seduce. VOLTAIRE Regard mistakes as teachers, not judges! TAE YUN KIM Maxim 28: If the price of collateral damage is high enough, you might be able to get paid for ... HOWARD TAYLER Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. HOWARD TAYLER Last words of wisdom. Whoever you were as a child, she's your future. CHERISE WOLAS I would rather be damned by my honesty, than caged by my lies. OMEGA MAVERICK Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the ... ÉMILE ZOLA Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. BILL MEYER Right now I've got just two rules to live by. Rule one: don't taunt elephants. Rule ... HOWARD TAYLER God has prepared a path for everyone to follow. PAULO COELHO My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the futu... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Intense, sustained focus fuels manifestation. T.F. HODGE Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they bu... ELIZABETH WARREN You really have to love the work. You can't look for stardom. That's a by-product. DONNA MILLS There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed ... DAVID CAMERON People have been scared off Bitcoin by the fact that you needed to put your money in an unregulated ... BARRY SILBERT Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist ec... NOAM CHOMSKY Lead by example so fiercely that your conviction is impossible to question. JOEY COLEMAN Maxim 6: If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it. HOWARD TAYLER Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxi... HOWARD TAYLER Live the present in such a way that in the future, you will need not be ashamed of your past. MARK HAMPTON WAYNE Careful, lest sentiment governs your ideals. A.H. SEPTIMIUS I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in t... MADELEINE L’ENGLE Silence is the best reply to those who provoke you. Smile is like icing on the cake. SARU SINGHAL Of course he was afraid of war. Only fools are not. Anaxantis was no fool. He was fully prepared to ... ANDREW ASHLING Life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved CLIVE OLLIES Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do? TERRY PRATCHETT All of a sudden, You seemed to be Stranger than a fiction, to me. SHILLPI S BANERRJI Maxim 8: Mockery and derision have their place. Usually, it's on the far side of the airlock.<... HOWARD TAYLER Not everything is supposed to become something beautiful and long-lasting. Sometimes people come int... EMERY ALLEN There is no point in being a bond vigilante if you cannot influence governments and central banks by... JEFF BERWICK It’s natural for people to feel superior to those under them. It requires a conscious effort to va... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ... JOHN M SHEEHAN Şi, vorbind mai general, oricare ţi-ar fi linia în viaţă, dacă constaţi că alţii nu-ţi pre... BERTRAND RUSSELL, ÎN CăUTAREA FERICIRII A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of p... RON CARPENTER JR. Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Apathetic to my pity party, God interrupted in a thunderous Voice with the words, “For we walk by ... SHELLEY LUBBEN One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. ... DENNIS HASTERT What I couldn’t bring myself to hate was the energy. I reveled in the way it ebbed and flowed as p... J.D. BREWER When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. JAMES A. BALDWIN Listen: it’s got to be all honeymoon, always. Either heaven, or hell: no comfortable s... WILLIAM FAULKNER We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop were not ther... MOTHER TERESA Love is not love which alters when it alterations finds. Sonnet 116 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Real Dominance isn't always measured in muscle. Nor is it always measured in Intelligence. But rathe... LUCIAN BANE I'm about to do something very clever and a tiny bit against the rules of the universe. It's importa... TOMMY DONBAVAND We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance. WILLIAM STEPHENSON
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