"Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities."

-- Ben Bernanke

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“By our very endowment as children of an Eternal Father we have had implanted within our souls the urgency to be free. It is natural for us to want to be accountable for our own fates because there is a whispering within us confirming that this accountability is absolutely essential to the attainment of our eternal destiny.”

Source : Dean L. Larsen (1989). “Free to Act”, Bookcraft Pubs
“Whatever's most important to you is your god. If it's not the Rock Christ Jesus, then it's sand!”
“There is nothing for me to be sour about. What you got to understand is that I'm a military man. We usually do my shift for four or five years and then you got to move on.”
“Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy, cheap credit, and they need it for at least two or three years. Importantly, they also need serial pleasant surprises in such critical variables as global GNP growth.”
“Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than [it's] given credit for.”
“If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.”

Source : Interview With Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2009.
“You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.”

Source : Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.205, John Wiley & Sons
“We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.”

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