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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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Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness. – James Buchan

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Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science – steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains – none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last centurys attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission. – James Buchan

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The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world. – James Buchan

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The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the publics money. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that theyre wrong. And not just admitting it also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because theyre making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right. – Alan Dershowitz

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Money

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. – Gertrude Stein

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Money

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. – Frank Hubbard

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Money

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The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark. – Jack Anderson

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Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it. – Mia Hamm

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Failure

Its hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of whats going on. Thats why Im doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly. – Cybill Shepherd

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A little anger is a good thing if it isnt on your own behalf, if its for others deserving of your anger, your empathy. – David Simon

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