I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.
Writing is hard work.
Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.
Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours.
The most important sentence in any article is the first one. If it doesn't induce the reader to proceed to the second sentence, your article is dead. And if the second sentence doesn't induce him to continue to the third sentence, it's equally dead.
Never let anything go out into the world that you don't understand.
If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.
Nothing would be better today if Europe were divided or smaller. Today we have to say loud and clear that the crises, which have affected Europe cannot serve as a pretext for its disintegration. A mini-Europe would be the worst response to the maxi problems we have to face.
If the issue is letting the states experiment and letting the society have more time to figure out its direction, why is taking a case now the answer?
You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz
The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.