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The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#computer #diaries #did #end #ended

I'm not into power for the sake of it. ↗

— Helen Clark

#into #power #sake

I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work. ↗

— Helen Clark

#been #building #china #connected #dynamic

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#god #like #make #money #plague

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#god #like #make #money #plague

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything! ↗

— Maria Montessori

#ever #language #learn #men #only

New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues. ↗

— Helen Clark

#human #human rights #interest #international #issues

Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state. ↗

— J. Reuben Clark

#earth #great #individual #lowest #more

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#dependent #golf #guys #i #i can

If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#begins #ceases #clothing #constitute #fruits