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The raids continued; and in 991, Æthelred paid the Danes in silver to stop raiding and to go away. The Danes thought this an excellent idea – and returned year after year to demand more. In Kipling's words: "if once you have paid him the Dane-geld, you never get rid of the Dane".
— Thomas Edison, American inventor (18 October 1931), speaking words of unclear meaning as he was dying "They tried to get me — I got them first!" [23] — Vachel Lindsay, American poet (5 December 1931), in his suicide note "You sons of bitches. Give my love to Mother." [10]
Men, all this stuff you hear about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big-league ball players and the toughest boxers.
For some people, spending money can be terrifying. Here's how they put things in perspective.
Boomers should stop lecturing millennials on the need to go to college to get a good job, says Greg Wilson, a chartered financial analyst. “College is more expensive than ever. “College is ...
The title of the book is drawn from a quote from Meditations, a series of personal writings by Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius: “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way .” [ 1 ] Holiday draws from Meditations , Aurelius, and the philosophy of Stoicism to expand the central theme of the book, which is ...
Common sense dictates that monitoring and adjusting your budget on paydays will ensure that you stick to your savings and spending goals more easily. However, while most people are excited to get ...
To be economical with the truth literally means to avoid revealing too much of the truth. While the idea may have an approbatory sense of prudence or diplomacy, the phrase is often either used euphemistically to denote dissimulation (misleading by withholding pertinent information) or else used ironically to mean outright lying.