"The mistake...was attributed in part to the fact that employees called the 3-year note 'Losh' and the 5-year note 'Bosh'. The comic mixing of 'Loshes' and 'Boshes' sounded more like a Dr. Seuss children's book than a cutting-edge risk-management operation."

-- Frank Partnoy

#Children Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Book Quotes

“Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.”

Source : "Al Sharpton’s Heated Clash With Tim Huelskamp", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2012.
“A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.”
“Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.”
“The fear in my heart was like in one of those dreams where you try to run but you can't do it, you can't run because the fear is an anchor in your chest.”
“If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.”
“It was the smile which runs before a promise.”

Source : Anna Katharine Green (2016). “The House of the Whispering Pines”, p.258, Anna Katharine Green
“If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?”
“The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by which men have the power to help themselves. The humanitarian puts himself in the place of God.”

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