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To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to

To give money to a woman – and here I must speak as a man – is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites. – James Buchan

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Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age. – James Buchan

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Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. – James Buchan

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Poetry
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To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, youre better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature – and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century. – James Buchan

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I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous. You just see through all that sort of stuff. I never liked those Deep Purples or those sort of things. I always hated it. I always thought it was a poor mans Led Zeppelin. – Angus Young

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If you make a living, if you earn your own money, youre free – however free one can be on this planet. – Theodore White

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My Vegas act is how I make my money. – Rita Rudner

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I dont talk about money. – Kim Kardashian

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If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible. – Epictetus

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I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, I dont understand why this is happening to me. There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isnt some magical thing that just started happening. – Chad Kroeger

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We become aware of the void as we fill it. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device. – Lawrence Lessig

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