wonder what these FinFacts quotes have to do with economics...
well, as RonnieR used to say to U.S., so do we...
butt, of the joke is, that we like them, along with Guinness.
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| "Believe those who search for truth. Doubt those who claim to have found it" - - André Gide (1869 -1951) Nobel Laureate in Literature 1947 "Error repeats itself endlessly in deeds. Therefore, we must repeat the truth tirelessly in words" - - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 -1832) German writer "I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever" - - Daniel Boorstin (1914 - 2004) American social historian "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land" - - Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 – 1968), speaking at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC 1963 "If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer" - - President-Elect Barack Obama, Election Night Tuesday, November 4th, 2008, Grant Field, Chicago “The scene was sickening and all the Irish were there, most of them vying with each other in eagerness to plunder the public purse,” William Ewart Gladstone, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, in an 1859 letter to his wife concerning a House of Commons debate, on the cancellation of a subsidy for the mail steam-packet service between Galway, Ireland and America. Gladstone was facing a budget deficit of £5m. Engaged in felling a tree at his home in Wales, in 1868, Gladstone remarked on receiving a telegram advising of the planned arrival of an emissary from the Queen, "very significant." About to become prime minister for the first of four periods, he then remarked to an aide:"My mission is to pacify Ireland." Of the 51 men and one woman, who have occupied 10 Downing Street, Gladstone ranks with Tony Blair for the extent of attention given to the "Irish Question." |
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