“There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.”
Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter XIV, When The Money Stopped, p. 183-184.
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"Anything Goes"; there are also variants on this line which read "But now, God knows,
Anything goes", but the most common renditions are done with "Heaven knows"
Anything Goes (1934)
“People want to believe something, and so they swallow anything.”
"Intense Ornate" interview with Amazon.co.uk (1999) http://www.elizabethhand.com/interview99.shtml
Context: So much fantasy relies on the author's having read Fraser's The Golden Bough or Robert Graves' The White Goddess and nothing else. The White Goddess is a crank book, a crank book of genius of course, but all the same... Mind you, I found Waking the Moon cited in an article in a pagan magazine as an authority for the idea that there was a patriarchal brotherhood, the Benandanti, that have been running things since antiquity, with no mention of the fact that it is a novel, and a fantasy at that. People want to believe something, and so they swallow anything.
“I'm so afraid of losing something I love, that I refuse to love anything.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 216
Source: Rocket Ship Galileo (1947), Chapter 10, “The Method of Science”, p. 105
Announcing that the Wikimedia Foundation Board has voted to enable Wikipedia to be licensed under a Creative Commons license. "Wikipedia to be Licensed Under Creative Commons" (30 November 2007) http://blog.jamendo.com/index.php/2007/12/01/breaking-news-wikipedia-switches-to-creative-commons/
“Words, once my stock, are wanting to commend
So great a poet and so good a friend.”
Epistle to Peter Antony Motteux (1698), lines 54–55.
