"My efforts to prevent closing of the gold window-working through Connally, Volcker, and Shultz-do not seem to have succeeded. The gold window may have to be closed tomorrow because we now have a government that is incapable, not only of constructive leadership, but of any action at all. What a tragedy for mankind!"

-- Arthur F. Burns

#Government Quotes #Effort Quotes #Gold Quotes

“We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.”

Source : The Atlantic Community Quarterly, Volume 14-15, p. 200, 1976-1978.
“Iâ€™m always in awe of people who are artists in their fields â€“ people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, theyâ€™ve created value in the world.”
“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”
“When large companies take on risk, then they impose risks on the rest of the system. And these are systemic risks and these systemic risks we never used to think were really that important, but as soon as we recognize how the financial sector - the risks the financial sector takes on can impact the entire global economy, we realize that those risks needed to be controlled for the social good.”
“When I think of grass I think of something to walk on, pot as something to put a plant in.”
“Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.”

Source : "Leila Janah, Samasource CEO, Talks Modeling, Feminism And Empowering Women" By Betsy Isaacson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 5, 2013.
“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
“It is that the individual has within him or herself vast resources for self-understanding, for altering the self-concept basic attitudes, and his or her self-directed behavior - and that these resources can be tapped if only a definable climate of facilitative psychological attitudes can be provided”

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