"If there is one common theme to the vast range of crises...it is that excessive debt accumulation, whether it be by the government, banks, corporations, or consumers, often poses greater systemic risks than it seems during a boom."

-- Carmen Reinhart

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“I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.”
“I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.
“I think people will be surprised at how fast they go next year. I do think world records will get broken next year.”
“What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.”
“Recognizing that the current form of globalization is nothing more than a generalized downward leveling in which global corporations are extracting more and more of the wealth, power, and productive energies from communities and the environment is the right approach... And knowing that in every specific battle, what we are fighting for is merely the substitution of the human agenda for the corporate agenda is what can guide and sustain us.”

Source : "Panic Rules!: Everything You Need to Know about the Global Economy". Book by Robin Hahnel, 1999.
“The best ideas and the most useful and ground-breaking are often, though not always, in one sense, very simple ideas.”
“You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.”
“I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely...”

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