#rve

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#during #especially #fools #give #idiots

Even the National Bank of Romania doesn't have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at an acceptable level, because they're drawing close to a floor below which the bank's reserves can't drop. The central bank has to wait for a moment of calm to efficiently conduct its interventions. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#bank #because #below #calm #central

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#lied #people #read #tabloids #who

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#history #interpretation #intervening #look #mean

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way. ↗

— David Brooks

#born #did #family #into #matters

While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#because #book #books #call #cautionary

The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer. ↗

— Ben Nighthorse Campbell

#american #any #borne #costs #defense

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#coming #day #freshly #observed #off

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#geological #scientist #soil #survey

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#deserves #himself #insulted #who