I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Aristotle

Life is a game but golf is serious.

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Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts.

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There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Inflation is when sitting on your nest egg doesn't give you anything to crow about.

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She wants her silence to be final. Here, more than anyplace else, she wants her memory uncontested. She does not want me talking to others, gathering other stories, looking into the remnants of my father's past. When she is silent, she wants those things about which she refuses to speak to remain as quiet as the tomb. That is the ultimate power of stories. They take on themselves the decision about what will be remembered and what will be told. The part of the past she claims most fiercely is the part she wants forgotten.

Richard White, Remembering Ahana

Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Let's not grow with our roots in the ground.

Criss Jami

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

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Three removes are as bad as a fire

Benjamin Franklin

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

Andrew Cuomo

Sell cheap and tell the truth.

Rose Blumkin