"The key function of banks is money creation, not intermediation."

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Source : Speech at the Conference “Fixing The Banking System For Good” in Philadelphia, USA, positivemoney.org. April 17, 2013.

Michael Kumhof

#Keys Quotes #Creation Quotes #Function Quotes

“Do not take the creative process personally. At every stage, you are going to feel like it's all falling apart, like the golden egg of truth in your brain is not manifesting on the page or on set or in the edit. But that panic, that loss, that pain - that is the process of creation. Let it hurt, drink some coffee and keep going.”

Source : "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Jessie Kahnweiler – ‘The Skinny’". Interview with Sian Melton, www.indiewire.com. January 26, 2016.
“Away with you, water, destruction of wine!”

Source : Gaius Valerius Catullus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Catullus (Illustrated)”, p.27, Delphi Classics
“It was a palace, made entirely of gold, sitting on an island of silver snow at the very top of the world. East of the sun, and west of the moon.”
“Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.”
“Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out of memory, and so (as Nietzsche saw) out of pain, the pain of surrendering easier pleasures in favour of much more difficult ones ... successful literary works are achieved anxieties, not releases from anxieties.”
“Some of the most challenging moves towards health are made with the simplest of steps and that is why I wrote The Start Here Diet.”
“Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.”
“It's always hard to talk about the culture that you are from, especially with Islam, it is a very sensitive subject and I don't want to be seen to be adding to the problems of Islam and the west.”

Source : Source: www.sbs.com.au

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