User:B.Andersohn

Hi there, I'm BJ,

My areas of interest are: finance, economics, anthropology, linguistics, semiotics, securities law, financial regulation, Roman Law, private equity, real estate and infrastructure.

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"“...With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping 'homeliness' entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all 'sentiment' is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called 'the Public', the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.”."

- Wyndham Lewis

""It is not the actual physical exertion that counts toward a man's progress, nor the nature of the task, but the spirit of faith with which it is undertaken"."

- Saint Francis Xavier

"Speaking to White House correspondents: “Write that novel you got kicking in your head: you know the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. … You know: fiction”."

- Stephen Colbert

"“Once in Chełm, the mythical village of the East European Jews, a man was appointed to sit at the village gate and wait for the coming of the Messiah. He complained to the village elders that his pay was too low. ‘You are right,’ they said to him, ‘the pay is low. But consider: the work is steady.’.”"

- Irving Howe, New York critic, sociologist and ethnocultural historian

""I have a character profoundly antagonistic to ordinary domestic life" (telling his wife why he couldn't spend more time with her)"

- Graham Greene

""This policy is certain to fail… That’s why we have to pursue it""

- Jules Guesde, liberal politician and Marxist thought leader – quoted by Georges Sorel

""On the other hand, she’s no shrinking violet. She can be tough when she has to be and works her butt off ... she is just very devoted and dedicated" (On fellow porn actress Veronica Hart)"

- Marilyn Chambers

""We have a unique responsibility to do the hard work of freedom. And when we do, freedom works... So if you’ve got a hammer, find a nail!""

- George H. W. Bush, Massachusettsian progressivist philosopher and, more importantly, Dan Quayle’s mentor

""And I thought porn people were the cleanest people in the world"."

- French Canadian educator Lara Roxx