"There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them."

-- Mark Zandi

#Real Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Past Quotes

“Only when the masses are reassured, can the country be at peace. Only when the country is at peace, can the leaders be relieved.”
“Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands.”
“Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek.”

Source : Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.88, Frog Books
“Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.”
“The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others.”
“The harpsichord was actually ideologically considered a very questionable instrument in that period, much like I think it's ideologically considered suspect today in some circles.”
“Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.”
“When one considers the body in relation to dance, it is then that one truly realizes what suffering is: it is a part of our lives. No matter how much we search for it from the outside there is no way we can find it without delving intoÂ ourselves.”

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