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European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.

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His very first story, he told me as he was dying, was set in Camelot, the court of King Arthur in Britain: Merlin the Court Magician casts a spell that allows him to equip the Knights of the Round Table with Thompson submachine guns and drums of .45-caliber dumdums. Sir Galahad, the purest in heart and mind, familiarizes himself with this new virtue-compelling appliance. While doing so, he puts a slug through the Holy Grail and makes a Swiss cheese of Queen Guinevere. Kurt Vonnegut
You must understand that our civilization is so vast that we can't have our minorities upset and stirred? Ask yourself, What do we want in this country, above all? People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't your head it all your life? I want to be happy people say. Well aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation ? And you must admit that our culture provides plenty of these. Ray Bradbury
If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain. William Vickrey
Fred Durst quote: "I am not a hater."
I am not a hater. Fred Durst
Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last. John Abizaid
Oscar Wilde quote: "Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their..."
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic. Oscar Wilde
There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat. Charles Dickens
L. M. Montgomery quote: "After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?"
After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt? L. M. Montgomery
In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Irving Langmuir quote: "And literature frequently rises to heights that make it..."
And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international. Irving Langmuir
Dylan Thomas quote: "Do not go gentle into that good night."
Do not go gentle into that good night. Dylan Thomas
The west need someone to tell the man who walks around with the biggest stick in the world, that that stick can`t bring down God`s house. Saddam Hussein
Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death. Lee Iacocca
Frank Lloyd Wright quote: "Less is more only when more is too much"
Less is more only when more is too much Frank Lloyd Wright
We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist. Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is missing in life, we are saying, with no need to say it or even to know it, that life as it is does not satisfy our thirst for the absolute? the foundation of the human condition? and should be better.... Mario Vargas Llosa