Expecting a stock to rise because you own it is as silly a notion as believing that we will never have another recession.

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It's silly, the way we've been brought up about the Germans, because I would never think of coming here if it wasn't for the football.

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And the girls, three of them university students, are so silly: dreaming non-stop of love and marriage, practising astrology, obsessed by the men they never, or hardly ever, are allowed to see but with whom they chirp like crickets throughout the night on their mobile phones.

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