"This is the twilight of the banks. It would be a more cheerful spectacle if we could envision the dawn of the institutions that will replace them"

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Source : Martin Mayer (1985). “The money bazaars: understanding the banking revolution around us”, Signet

Martin Mayer

#Twilight Quotes #Cheerful Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“The only bowl Rutgers is going to is the one I just got off of.”
“A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.”
“When we forgive someone, we do not forget the hurtful act, as if forgetting came along with the forgiveness package, the way strings come with a violin. Begin with the basics. If you forget, you will not forgive at all. You can never forgive people for things you have forgotten about. You need to forgive precisely because you have not forgotten what someone did; your memory keeps the pain alive long after the hurt has stopped. Remembering is the storage of pain. It is why you need to be healed in the first place.”
“Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.”
“I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.”

Source : Pop Chronicles interview, 1967.
“When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.”
“Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it. It is also incompatible with magic, but that also is not worth stressing. What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot of phenomena under a single heading.”
“This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!”

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