"The cardinal maxim is, that any aid to a present bad Bank is the surest mode of preventing the establishment of a future good Bank."

-- Walter Bagehot

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“I want the players to play that way, so I'd better manage that way. The philosophy has been thrown out there. We've been talking about it. We've been working on it, so let's see how it works. Let's see if theory and reality can come together.”
“It's so easy to judge everybody and for some reason extra weight is the one thing everything feels OK to joke about.”
“Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.”

Source : "David Kay Testifies Before Senate Committee". Cnn Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. January 28, 2004.
“When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.”

Source : Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.2523, Agate Digital
“What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!”

Source : Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.96, Macmillan
“Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.”

Source : "Irrational, illogical, unpredictable - 24 years on, the world awaits Saddam's next move" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2003.
“Footprints in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this drab-coloured world of ours.”
“It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion”

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