"Credit default swap gives you something to do. You can buy some credit default swaps from them to protect yourself against the bankruptcy of people who owe you money."

-- Robert F. Engle

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Credit Quotes

“Do not become the candle that gives light to others but itself remains in darkness. Do not follow the desires of your lower self. Should the Lord wish, He himself will pick you out and prompt you to be a source of guidance. He Himself shall endow you with the inner strength to endure the changes of fortune and will instill within you infinite wisdom.”
“Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.”
“Vegas is purposefully constructed as a self-enclosed and isolated biosphere, sort of what a recreational colony built on the moon might be like.”
“The relationships I've had with my girl friends are so powerful and meaningful. Without them I truly don't know what I'd do.”
“A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.”
“Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.”
“Someone else's opinion of me- does not change my opinion of me.”
“The promise of technology is to remove the division between culture and nature. Whatever part of nature that is left over as an independent force is covered by the technological bluff, which refers it to the agenda of the future and disguises the deficiencies of the present.”

Source : "Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge". Book by Donald Phillip Verene, 1997.

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