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“Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.”
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“The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.”
Source : John McGahern (2009). “Memoir”, p.107, Faber & Faber
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“Don't send a man to the grocery store.”
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“Repetition is a form of change”
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“The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.”
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“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.”
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“I remember when you could always rely on those little street kids to pop a few people for the latest Nikes," Vice-President John said. "Now people get mugged for Reeboks, for Adidas - for generics, for Christ's sake.”
Source : Max Barry (2004). “Jennifer Government”, p.14, Vintage
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“You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.”
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“Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.”
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“You get diarrhea out here, you dehydrate from the inside out - you leave the gene pool.”