Famous Quotes / Robertson Davies

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Robertson Davies: "Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind."


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AbilityAccordionlikeActuallyAnywhere
BecomesComparativelyCompassedConcept
ContractDecreasingDisposingDollars
ExpandFigureGaseousInordinate
MajorityMillionMindMinds
NotionOccasionPeoplePerhaps
PleasingPoliticiansRationalReflecting
SizeSomebodySuggestsSwelling
ThemselvesUponWantsWarmly
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