"And many of the people who buy or found banks have had no experience in banking at all. If they can learn it, so can we."

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Source : Penny Lernoux (1984). “In Banks We Trust”, Anchor Books

Penny Lernoux

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“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is "not done" to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.”
“But itâ€™s compounded by the fact that I love animals and feel better not eating them.”
“I was an elementary school teacher.”
“The final goal of physical education is to make strong beings. In the purely physical sense, the Natural Method promotes the qualities of organic resistance, muscularity and speed, towards being able to walk, run, jump, move on all fours, to climb, to keep balance, to throw, lift, defend yourself and to swim.”
“An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.”
“Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.”
“The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions.”

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“When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.”

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