"Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks."

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Source : "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

John Hume

#Class Quotes #People Quotes #Credit Quotes

“Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.”
“And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.”

Source : Al Purdy, Robert Budde (2006). “The more easily kept illusions: the poetry of Al Purdy”, Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr
“One woman's poise is another woman's poison.”
“Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.”
“Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.”
“Answers come when the questions that are being asked need to be answered.”

Source : "Sense 8: Jamie Clayton Talks Working with The Wachowskis, Her Character, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 03, 2015.
“Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.”
“At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.”

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