Russia depends on natural resources way too much. Russian economy is not diversified enough

Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.

I think that a lot of the money - these big bills - is used to facilitate tax evasion and crime.

People aren't looking at how they're doing, but rather at how their neighbors are doing and at their own place in society.

I don't think it's time yet to eliminate cash, but I propose having a less-cash society, not a cashless one.

It's quite astonishing how much money people make in the hedge fund business and in the private equity field, and how well-off affluent families really are.

Cash is very easy to hide. It's easy to hoard. It's easy to move, especially these large bills.

I tell my children that a man like Bill Gates has a personal fortune of $100 billion. They can't even comprehend that. Then I explain that he has more money than some countries.

Unbridled capitalism will lead to some very real problems.

The assertion that everyone benefits simultaneously from free trade is simply incorrect.

We're not just going to see mid-sized banks go under in the next few months, we're going to see a whopper.

In the midst of our struggle to find out who we are, there are infinite possibilities for beauty, and hope, and wonder, and love.

Through the waters spilled by the spring, I was remade. Forth I fared, a new plant with new leaves in a new time. The stars were there, and I was set to climb.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence.

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care!

In our exterior life, we can be only one person. But in our imagination, we can be anyone, anywhere.

In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.

Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.