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Talik said, 'His contract with Lord Berenger ends soon. Ancel will seek a new contract, a high bidder. He wants money, status. He is foolish. Lord Berenger may offer less money, but he is kind, and never puts pets in the ring. Ancel has made many enemies. In the ring, someone will scratch his green eyes out, an "accident."' Damen was drawn in against his will. 'That's why he's chasing royal attention? He wants the Prince to--' He tried out the unfamiliar vocabulary. '--offer for his contract?' 'The Prince?' said Talik, scornfully. 'Everyone knows the Prince does not keep pets.' 'None at all?' said Damen. She said, 'You.' She looked him up and down. 'Perhaps the Prince has a taste for men, not these painted Veretian boys who squeal if you pinch them.' Her tone suggested that she approved of this on general principle. ↗

— S.U. Pacat

#captive-prince #contracts #damen #laurent #talik

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#did #gone #i #i think #music

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#crisis #depression #despite #essentially #federal

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#impiety #irreverence #toward #your

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

#contempt #defeats #end #esteem #into

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. ↗

— Plato

#children #education #end #into #man

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#go #important #just #know #periods

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there. ↗

— William Labov

#countries #covered #eastern #european #european countries

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.' ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

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Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

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