"In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules."

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Source : "Quotations", QFinance, October 20, 2007.

Bernard Madoff

#Lying Quotes #Today Quotes #Impossible Quotes

“As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think its just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change the diapers, to tell the stories.”
“I sometimes find that playing the bad guy, or villains, or psychopaths tend to be much more psychologically rewarding. And you can really push it, you can push the limits, and get away with it.”
“Don't overpluck your eyebrows. A make-up artist told me this once, and I've always remembered it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If Boeing got a big head start on the 707 from multibillion-dollar military contracts to develop an air force transport, is that a sin against free trade?”

Source : Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.96, University of Pennsylvania Press
“Awkwardness gives me great comfort. I've never been cool, but I've felt cool. I've been in the cool place, but I wasn't really cool - I was trying to pass for hip or cool. It's the awkwardness that's nice.”
“Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict.”
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
“The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but only the imagination and initiative of leaders, and the hardy industry of followers, can transform the possibilities into fact...Man, not the earth, makes civilization.”

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