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“Forty is a difficult age at which to stay awake, he decided. At twenty or at sixty the body knows what it’s about, but forty is an adolescence where one sleeps to grow up or to stay young.”
― The Honourable Schoolboy
― The Honourable Schoolboy
“Cliff, I’d like to take over, but our charter prevents it. NSA can’t engage in domestic monitoring, even if we’re asked. That’s prison term stuff.”
― The Cuckoo's Egg
― The Cuckoo's Egg
“Voltaire said about God that ‘there is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night’.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Perhaps nothing speaks more eloquently of the variability of spelling in the age than the fact that a dictionary published in 1604, A Table Alphabeticall of Hard Words, spelled “words” two ways on the title page.”
― Shakespeare: The World as Stage
― Shakespeare: The World as Stage
“For gold bugs, anti–Federal Reserve zealots, and flat-out cranks, the 1910 escapade would come to assume mythic significance. Over the decades, its suspicious character seemed only to grow larger. In 1952, Eustace Mullins, a Holocaust denier and conspiracy theorist nonpareil, described the “secret meetings of the international bankers” as a conclave of the Rothschild family linked backward in time to Hamilton and forward to Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin.”
― America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
― America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
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