"If you pay attention to where your exposures are, you might tend up buying credit default swaps against a variety of people that you - companies that you deal with."

-- Robert F. Engle

#People Quotes #Buying Quotes #Attention Quotes

“I think the real test is to plan something and be able to carry it out to the very end. Not that you're always enthusiastic; it's just that you have to get this thing out. It's not done with one's emotions; it's done with the head.”
“I don't think that developing countries gained from a two-stage process. A single phase summit (which is, after all, a two year process, not a three day event) would have built awareness, and would probably have led to more substantive conclusions at the end of the first summit meeting. Civil society may have gained a bit more from the networking experience, but it was less effective at networking in the second phase.”

Source : "Interview with David Souter: Learning from the WSIS Experience". Interview with Kat Walraven, www.apc.org. September 12, 2007.
“What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of lifeâ€”love and sacrifice.”
“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
“And this mess is so big And so deep and so tall, We cannot pick it up. There is no way at all!”
“Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to be considered as a component in an overall look as well as for its individual charms.”

Source : Penelope Hobhouse (2001). “Flower garden designs”
“Great events have sent before them their announcements.”
“Heartbreak taught me that you can rise from the ashes and get over anything.”

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