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“The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises or lowers the amount of interest. Any business that can't survive a one percent change must be skating on thin ice. Why even the poor farmer took a raise of another ten percent just to get a loan from the bank, and nobody from the government paid any attention. But you let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help to get them back into bed again.”

“When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.”

People Fall Imagination Mere Terror Vices Dread Fling Precipice

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.”

Facts Fall Literature Wife Rocks Habit Mere My Wife Compare Dropping Goats Beastly

Book:The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.”

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn.”

Humans Art Real Philosophy Moments Fall History Dangerous Development Mere Distinction Cosmic Medal Human History Distinguished Ribbons Popcorn

Author:Saul Bellow