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“Note that both of these papers [the New York Post and the New York Daily News] are big sellers in a city whose residents like to go around saying they'd never live anyplace else on account of they'd miss the opera.”

Bigs Cities Modern Missing New York Paper News Accounts Notes Posts Opera Papers Modern Life Residents Sellers Daily News

Author:Dave Barry

“Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked: 'Account Overdrawn.'”

Political Politics Watches Virtue Paper Accounts Victim Checks Bounce

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“I like paper statements rather than relying on computers. I feel more in control if my account details and transactions are broken down on paper.”

Ifs Feels Broken Paper Computer Accounts Details Statements Transactions Broken Down

Author:Geoff Capes

“I guess the main thing that came out of the Panama Papers was that Ukrainian President Poroshenko had promised to divest of his chocolate company and instead, he simply moved it into an offshore account. And on the very day that he was increasing the attacks on the eastern Donbass region of Ukraine, the export sector, he was signing documents to conceal his own money offshore. So the exposé of the Panama money laundering has hit some of the dictators that America is protecting and promoting.”

America President Company Paper Accounts Moved Regions Chocolate Dictator Documents Papers Eastern Promoting Ukraine Signing Ukrainian Panama Offshore Money Laundering

Author:Michael Hudson

“I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a taxi. A woman in Ohio had just had her seventeenth child. A twelve-year-old girl in Mexico had given birth to a thirteen-pound boy. The lead article on the woman's page was about how to adjust the older child to the new baby. I finally found an account of an axe murder on page seventeen, and held my coffee cup up to my face to see if the steam might revive me.”

Source: The Magic of Shirley Jackson

“The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.”

Facts Lying House Paper Accounts Rings Advertisements

Book:The Daughter of Time

Source: The Daughter of Time

“Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.”

Writing Sides Paper Accounts Both Sides Examination

Author:W. C. Sellar

“As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a piece of paper with a pencil to account for the oranges she had sold, as she could not read or write. I took a photo of her and vowed I would do everything in my power to help educate girls just like her. This was the war I was going to fight.”

Writing War Helping Motivational Young Girl Fighting Powerful Saws Pieces Paper Accounts Mark Selling Educate Orange Pencils Like Her

Author:Malala Yousafzai