"There is a simple way of avoiding excess risk-taking by the managers of our financial institutions. It is to make it a crime ... had a crime for reckless management of a financial institution been on the books, Northern Rock and RBS would not have blown up."

-- Paul Collier

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“We are a very crafty family.”
“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.”
“I didn't have to wear a mask on Halloween to scare people, so I didn't need one to cover my face on the field!”
“It's can you, Steve Wozniak, design the same computer - maybe it's a Varian 620i - can you design it on paper with fewer chips than last month? Can you design it with 79 chips instead of 80 chips?I had played this game so long that I had all these little tricks in my head that I can't even explain. Nothing was wasted; absolutely zero waste. I told this story recently to the Resource Recovery Association, recycling, and they loved to hear I didn't believe in waste.”
“It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.”
“We create our own worlds. We destroy our own worlds. It is that simple..”

Source : Patricia Cornwell (2001). “The Last Precinct: Scarpetta”, p.44, Penguin
“I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“[When] you're dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiness.”

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