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It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring.


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DANIEL ELLSBERG If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
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PROVERB The Egyptian authorities have confirmed to us that among the dead is one Swiss victim.
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SWISS PROVERB No money, no Swiss. [Fr., Point d'argent, point de Suisse.]
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DAN GILBERT Effective leaders know how to be less hammer and more Swiss army knife.
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unfolding before you
like a Swiss Army knife.
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MARK STREIT Heaven is where the police are British, the mechanics German, the cooks are French, the lovers Itali...
ELIANE KIRCHNER The Swiss Tropical Institute will be responsible for selecting patients and carefully monitoring the...
CAROL OLSON It's great for Swiss hockey that we won. We have to be careful because it's one game.
DAVID AEBISCHER We make them ourselves to the customer's liking with Swiss movement. They make great gifts.
DAVID PECK I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engr...
CHRISTINE LAVIN The sooner we find the net the better. We know that we must slot a fair number of goals to compensat...
ZINEDINE ZIDANE Swiss Cheese is a rip-off! It's the only cheese I can bite into and miss!
MITCH HEDBERG I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix...
TREVOR NOAH I'm the only one in my family who doesn't cook, but I can do a Swiss dish called frittatensu...
MARGHERITA MISSONI We'll have to wait and see what we get. If it looks like Swiss cheese, we won't be happy.
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KEN DULANEY You've built this great firewall in front of your enterprise, but the back of your enterprise is lik...
KEN DULANEY Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entir...
CHARLES DICKENS The expansionary operations of the Second Bank of the United States, coupled with its laxity toward ...
MURRAY ROTHBARD The Marty report has more holes than a Swiss cheese. It is sad that Mr Marty refuses to accept the c...
DENIS MACSHANE The Swiss never participated in the Holocaust, it was not a collaborator in the Holocaust, and we ar...
THOMAS BORER I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywher...
MARISSA MAYER When a bank calls in a loan, it obviously hurts the customer in question. But it also adversely affe...
ERIC MASKIN The Swiss came to an agreement they would keep half the gold and the rest would go to the Allies,
ISRAEL SINGER One of the Swiss players swore at me and showed me the finger, and when he says he didn't do it, eve...
FATIH TERIM In a heated game like this, you wanted to have a better ending, but we put ourselves in this positio...
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ALLISON TOLMAN We shot ourselves in the foot. You can't take anything away from the Swiss. They took advantage of t...
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JULIAN BARNES The secret of happiness is to be happy already
JULIAN BARNES The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly
JULIAN BARNES Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar.
JULIAN BARNES I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll j...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall...
JULIAN SCHNABEL I'm not saying I'm the only Jewish person who cares about Palestinian people, but unfortunat...
JULIAN SCHNABEL I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going...
JULIAN BOND I don't assume that I am going to be cast as a Glaswegian landlord.
JULIAN OVENDEN It's a significant contribution if we can get immigration reform done.
JULIAN CASTRO No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not ...
JULIAN BAGGINI It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them o...
JULIAN BAGGINI It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship,...
JULIAN BAGGINI As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of A...
JULIAN CASTRO The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incr...
JULIAN SANDS