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«More than print and ink, a newspaper is a collection of fierce individualists who somehow manage to perform the astounding daily miracle of merging their own personalities under the discipline of the deadline and retain the flavor of their own minds in print.»
«I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.»
«Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.»
«The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in inequity and born in sin... But if you want to continue to be slaves of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers continue to create money and control credit .»
«It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live»
«If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.»
«Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict [slavery] might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has»
«If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.»
«If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves»
«I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.»

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