Most people…find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets. – Howard Davies
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. – Thomas Jefferson
I dont intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right. – Harold Pinter
The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop. – Terry Pratchett
