"The problem of dealing with the financial industry is that you can measure it with interest rates coming down. You can measure it with the quantity of loans, and that sort of thing. The problem is, that nobody wants to take the loans. Once the banks are willing to give it, that's only half the problem."

-- Michael Bloomberg

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“When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants.”

Source : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc
“For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.”

Source : W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”
“Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.”

Source : Quoted in Listener, 14 Dec. 1939 See Calonne 1; Santayana 14; Trollope 3
“You know, when Sharpton and I walked in, it was, like, big commotion and everything, but everybody was very nice. And I couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was - it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship.”
“Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells.”
“He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.”
“I recall improvisational drummer and composer Michael Evans telling me a story of someone who had the opportunity to meet Cage and give him a record, and John Cage just smiled and said, "You know I have nothing to play this on?"”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]”

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