08-01-2022, 12:58 PM
"There is always room for a story
that can transport people
to another
place ."
J K Rowling
"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.
If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
Albert Einstein.
"We did what we could. We wrote to newspapers. We marched & we protested. We voted. After that, why not be cheerful? If we stop being cheerful, we give in to them."
Beatrice & Virgil, Yann Martel
"The stock exchange is something very different. There is no economy & no production of goods & services. There are only fantasies in which people from one hour to the next decide that this or that company is worth so many billions, more or less. IT doesn’t have a thing to do with reality or with the Swedish economy.
“So you’re saying that it doesn’t matter if the Stock exchange drops like a rock?”
“No, it doesn’t matter at all”, Blomberg said.....
“It only means that a bunch of heavy speculators are now moving their shareholdings from Swedish companies to German ones. So it’s the financial gnomes that some tough reporter should perhaps identify & expose as traitors. They’re the ones who are systematically damaging the Swedish economy in order to satisfy the profit interests of their clients.”
The girl with the dragon tattoo, Stieg Larsson
"In fact, all his black & white thinking does is harden hearts, fix prejudice & blind good folk to the harm they do. And if something happens to challenge the way in which they see the world, when black & white thinking at last dissolves into a million shades of grey, men like Reynaud are left floundering, grasping at straws in a hurricane."
Peaches for Monsieur Le Cure, Joanne Harris.
that can transport people
to another
place ."
J K Rowling
"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.
If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
Albert Einstein.
"We did what we could. We wrote to newspapers. We marched & we protested. We voted. After that, why not be cheerful? If we stop being cheerful, we give in to them."
Beatrice & Virgil, Yann Martel
"The stock exchange is something very different. There is no economy & no production of goods & services. There are only fantasies in which people from one hour to the next decide that this or that company is worth so many billions, more or less. IT doesn’t have a thing to do with reality or with the Swedish economy.
“So you’re saying that it doesn’t matter if the Stock exchange drops like a rock?”
“No, it doesn’t matter at all”, Blomberg said.....
“It only means that a bunch of heavy speculators are now moving their shareholdings from Swedish companies to German ones. So it’s the financial gnomes that some tough reporter should perhaps identify & expose as traitors. They’re the ones who are systematically damaging the Swedish economy in order to satisfy the profit interests of their clients.”
The girl with the dragon tattoo, Stieg Larsson
"In fact, all his black & white thinking does is harden hearts, fix prejudice & blind good folk to the harm they do. And if something happens to challenge the way in which they see the world, when black & white thinking at last dissolves into a million shades of grey, men like Reynaud are left floundering, grasping at straws in a hurricane."
Peaches for Monsieur Le Cure, Joanne Harris.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)