{"quotes":[{"text":"In their quest to hit cloud Nine, our young men and women intheir prime are gradually finding themselves on ground Zero,emotionally battered, academically bankrupt and medicallyparalyzed.","author":"Oche Otorkpa","tags":["academically","bankrupt","cloud-nine","emotion","emotionally","ground-zero","medical","medically","teens","youngpeople"],"id":19280,"author_id":"Oche+Otorkpa"},{"text":"It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["a-breeze","a-cinch","a-piece-of-cake","a-snap","arduous","arduousness","arrogance","arrogant","back-breaking","bankrupt","bankruptcy","believe","burdensome","child-s-play","demanding","difficult","difficulty","disbelief","duck-soup","easy","easy-as-pie","effortless","elementary","escape","evade","exhausting","facile","fatiguing","grueling","hard","hassle","hope","humble","humility","humor","humour","kids-stuff","laborious","laboriousness","lose","loss","no-sweat","onerous","painless","poor","poverty","problems","punishing","rich","satire","simple","smooth-sailing","someday","straightforward","strain","strenuous","struggle","tiring","toil","tough","trouble","trouble-free","unchallenging","uncomplicated","undemanding","wealth","wealthy","wearisome"],"id":73015,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Greed is the fast-track to poverty.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["bankrupt","bankruptcy","egocentric","greed","greedy","impoverished","poverty","self-centered","selfish","selfishness"],"id":81232,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"I AM the current curator of the black trunk and the stories it holds within.","author":"Hope Barrett","tags":["bankrupt","murder","theatre","victorian-era"],"id":110546,"author_id":"Hope+Barrett"},{"text":"I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["bankrupt","bankruptcy","blind","blindness","debt","demand","demanding","denial","ego","egocentric","entitlement","imaginary","imagine","narcissism","narcissistic","owe","owed","real","selfish","selfishness"],"id":177021,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["accountant","accountants","accounting","adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","at-odds","axiom","axioms","bad-people","bad-person","bankrupt","bankruptcy","business","business-man","business-men","business-people","business-person","business-woman","business-women","businesses","choice","choose","chose","clash","companies","company","conflict","contradict","contradiction","deep","desire","desires","dictum","dictums","dilemma","epigram","epigrams","force","forced","friction","funny","gnome","gnomes","good-people","good-person","humor","humorous","humour","income","incomes","incompatibility","incompatible","insightful","loss","losses","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maximize","maxims","maximum","minimize","minimum","mismatch","money","philosopher","profit","profit-and-loss","profits","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","revenue","revenues","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","seller","sellers","selling","south-africa","south-african","thought-provoking","thoughtful"],"id":235706,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the tidal strait between Manhattan Island and her favorite suburb offers the specious illusion of easy death. Melville prepared for the plunge from the breakwater on the South Street promenade, Whitman at the railing of the outbound ferry, both men redeemed by some Darwinian impulse, maybe some epic vision, which enabled them to change leaden water into lyric wine. Hart Crane rejected the limpid estuary for the brackish swirl of the Caribbean Sea. In each generation, from Washington Irving’s to Truman Capote’s, countless young men of promise and talent have examined the rippling foam between the nation’s literary furnace and her literary playground, questioning whether the reams of manuscript in their Brooklyn lofts will earn them garlands in Manhattan’s salons and ballrooms, wavering between the workroom and the water. And the city had done everything in its power to assist these men, to ease their affliction and to steer them toward the most judicious of decisions. It has built them a bridge.","author":"Jacob M. Appel","tags":["bankrupt","brooklyn","brooklyn-bridge","east-river","failure","herman-melville","hopelessness","jacob-m-appel","manhattan","melville","new-york-city","suicide","walt-whitman","whitman"],"id":306409,"author_id":"Jacob+M.+Appel"},{"text":"A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character.","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["bankrupt","economy","poverty"],"id":336471,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"},{"text":"Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. 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Lounsbrough","tags":["bankroll","bankrupt","entitlement","foolish","foolishness","greed","impulses","impulsive","materialism","principles","principles-of-life","priorities","selfish","selfishness","shallow","superificality"],"id":375744,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}