"What caused 2008, in my opinion, is that people just didn't see the risk. These people that took on all this risk didn't think they had it - they thought they hedged it all away. As long as there's a perception of risk, and a culture of looking for risk, it's going to be hard to deflate us."

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Source : Source: uk.businessinsider.com

John Manley

#Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said, a real power that gives rise to numerous phenomena. This power has, however, neither goal nor intention. It can do only what it does; it is only a set of acting causes, not a particular being. I was the first to establish this truth at a time when life was still thought to be a principle, an archeia, a being of some sort.”

Source : "Lamarck, the Mythical Precursor: A Study of the Relations Between Science and Ideology". Book by Madeleine Barthélemy Madaule, p. 102, 1982.
“Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.”
“In the morning I had decided that henceforth I only cared for easy loves. It is so degrading to have to persuade people into liking one, or one's works.”
“Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why.”
“When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.”
“It's the best. And the job site isn't too bad, either.”
“That's more about lifestyle [Peter Mayles], living abroad. It's about buying a donkey and house in south France, and that's a slightly different thing. A very popular genre but that's not quite my thing.”

Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com
“Free grace will fix those, whom free will shook down into a gulph of misery.”

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