"So perhaps the most worrying single remark made by a responsible banking official during the current crisis came from Jochen Sanio, the head of Germany's banking regulator BaFin. He warned on Aug. 1 that his country could be facing the worst banking crisis since 1931 - a reference to the collapse of Austria's Kredit Anstalt, which provoked a wave of bank failures across Europe."

-- Martin Walker

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“Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.”
“I just try to play make-believe and pretend the world is magical and awesome as much as possible.”

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“The reader has information about the characters that the characters themselves don't have. We all have our secret sides. Even I come to understand things about the characters only through the writing process, as I am going along.”

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“Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.”
“What memories for mud to have.”
“I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetterâ€™d by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whateâ€™er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; â€˜Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.”
“I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.”

Source : "The Anchor Book of French quotations, with English Translations". Book by Norbert Guterman, 1963.
“Jesus is my role model and He is whom I try to follow. Everything I do, I know I'm representing Him. Does it mean I do it well all the time? No. But I do ask for forgiveness for the times I bring Him a bad name.”

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