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No future for the dollar.

The DaVinci Code

'You know bank pens never work. Why didn't you write the holdup note before we left?!'

'Like it? I LOVED it! The narrative gripped me from the first sentence and didn't let go until the final, heart-stopping page! And the CHARACTERS! Without question, Harris, this is the finest year-end financial report you've ever written!'

Mobsters at the Beach

How should I know up or down? All I heard was the FT was 74.95.

'It's a new medication I'm working on, but the side effects are monsterous.'

'This morning a rumor that we would buy the Arpex Corp drove our stock up $3. Around noon a rumor that Arpex would buy us drove it up another $3. And in the afternoon a rumor that wo have nothing to do with Arpex drove it up $3 more.'

Greece - The Black Hole

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Esq.

'No, your stock didn't split. The fact it's worth half of what it was yesterday is just an amazing coincidence.'

'My mentor and role model was a frequent flyer.'

'I can understand Heisenberg's equation and Schrodinger's equation for quantum mechanics but I cannot understand derivative trading.'

'I'll never forget, it was the day before Newton discovered gravity.'

'Make sure he doesn't turn his TV to any business news programs while he's here.'

'Good news! Some guy stole my identity online. Now he's saddled with my bad credit rating.'

Joan of Sark - Offshore Directorship Fees

S.S, Eurozone in Mayday call

'Does that look like your waiter?'

"Charges on misogyny, xenophobia and sexual assault. Guilty or innocent?"

'You're on trial for grand theft larceny -- you can't choose to remain anonymous!'

Prisoner to other: 'But what I actually ended up doing was consolidating all my debts into one ten-year sentence.'

"Audit him - but make it look like an accident."

"Don't do anything rash, sir - The government gave us two more weeks to get into compliance!"

"This is all we need! - A giant hat pin serial killer."

'Looks like a Ponzi scheme, but you got in early so you should be fine - provided you keep your mouth shut.'

J G Farrell

Caution falling books

'Now remember, let me do the crying.'

I.R.S. tax office with man sitting in front of agent's desk looking at RECOVERY & SCREAM ROOM door.

'it's the local bank manager.'

'I'm giving you this assignment, Warburton, because everybody else is hiding somewhere.'

'No more loaning to dinosaurs. They go extinct.'