Exchangist Quotes & Sayings

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth. — Michael Scott

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech. — Debbie Harry

Well damn him. I was not dead yet, and so long as I lived I would fight for Aethelflaed. — Bernard Cornwell

People talk about 'lives of significance'-as if there's an alternative. If you're not leading a life of significance, you're not living. — Andrew Williams

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it. — Greta Garbo

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Pascal Saint-Amans, the OECD's top tax official, said the move was "very unhelpful" as it lumped jurisdictions that have signed up to global transparency initiatives together with holdouts such as Panama. He criticised the criteria as unfair, inefficient and subjective. The commission drew the "first pan-EU list of third-country non-cooperative tax jurisdictions" from blacklists provided by individual members. There were high numbers of offshore centres listed as unco-operative by some countries such as Greece and Italy, while others such as the UK, Germany and Sweden did not list any countries. — Anonymous

Besides, it is doubtful that incest was a real obstacle to the establishment of society, as the partisans of an exchangist conception claim ... The real danger is elsewhere. If desire is repressed, it is because every position of desire ... is capable of calling into question the established order of society ... it is revolutionary in its essence ... It is therefore of vital importance for a society to repress desire, and even to find something more efficient than repression, so that repression, hierarchy, exploitation, and servitude are themselves desired ... that does not at all mean that desire is something other than sexuality, but that sexuality and love do not live in the bedroom of Oedipus, they dream instead of wide-open spaces, and ... do not let themselves be stocked within an established order. — Gilles Deleuze

Everybody makes such a big deal today about team play because there's such a scarcity of it. Greed is a reason. You have to understand the influence of greed. A player has to be selfish in the pursuit of the development of his skills, but he cannot be selfish when it comes time to blend them in with what's good for his team. — Pete Carril

These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that. — Muriel Spark

In Geo-Politics, a nation has no permanent allies or permanent enemies, only permanent interests. — George Friedman

What I'm saying is that we all hold, in our minds, the ability to create images that would break us in half. — Marc Parent

I am concussed, I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis. — John Green

Life is not easy, but there would be religion, art, love that we sustain ourselves with. — Albert Camus