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“Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.”

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Graydon Carter is a prominent American journalist and editor, most famous for his role as the editor of 'Vanity Fair' magazine from 1992 to 2013. He is recognized for his sharp wit and insightful commentary on American culture and politics. more

“Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane.”

Want Persons Hard Done Form Levels Common Identity Angry Deny Insane Unconscious Phenomenon Negativity Let It Go Sabotage Positive Change

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“But common sense has no place in first love and never has.”

Firsts Common Common Sense First Love

Author:Mitch Albom

“Didn't people call New Year's the loneliest night on the calender? She took comfort in knowing somewhere on the planet, someone might be as miserable as she was.”

People Years Might Night Knowing Planets Comfort Miserable New Year

Author:Mitch Albom

“When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, - or will, given time enough.”

Men Enough Eye Desire Given Obstacles Fulfillment Her Eyes

Book:Sister Carrie

Source: Sister Carrie

“She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.”

Felt Gone Punishment Worthless Hollow No Hope Fixing Gone Time

Book:The Time Keeper

Source: The Time Keeper

“She did nothing to try to control the shakes that rattled her body,and didn't attempt to stop herself from crying. Tears left both of her eyes at the far corners,slipping out and flowing over her temples.Some landed in her ears. Some eased down her neck and were absorbed by the pillow.Others clouded her vision,as if they didn't want to leave home.”

Ifs Want Trying Home Body Eye Left Vision Cry Tears Ears Corners Necks Shakes Temples Her Eyes Pillow Slipping Clouded

Author:J.R. Ward

“I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.”

People Moments Modern Good People Favour Earnest Bad People Mania Importance Of Being Earnest

Book:The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Proclaim your pride and bitterness loudly to the world, but to me speak softly, and tell me simply that she doesn't love you.”

World Speak Love You Pride Bitterness Speak Softly

Author:Edmond Rostand

“There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things.”

Ifs Thinking Men Way Two Order Moral Principles Our Lives Life Philosophy Method Suits Preacher Adjustment Perversion Adjusting Moral Principles

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to live in relative adjustment to a civilization apparently driven to its own destruction.”

Civilization Capacity Destruction Constant Threat Driven Relative Violation Adjustment Outrageous Annihilation

Author:R. D. Laing

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