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«I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.»
Author: David Bowie
(Singer, Song Writer)
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«The game of life is like the game of boomerangs, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy»
Author: Florence Skinner
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«Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.»
Author: John Maynard Keynes
| About:
Belief,
Capitalism
| Keywords:
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«The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in inequity and born in sin... But if you want to continue to be slaves of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers continue to create money and control credit .»
Author: Josiah Charles Stamp
(Economist)
| About:
Money,
Slavery
| Keywords:
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«It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live»
Author: Jules Renard
(Writer)
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«If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
(Inventor)
| Keywords:
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«Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict [slavery] might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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«If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.»
«If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves»
«I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
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