"When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in."

-- Alain Robert

#Keys Quotes #Parent Quotes #Seven Quotes

“The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does.”

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“And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and statistical data.”
“Economics, as it is often taught today, portrays us as ***** economicus-someone who doesn't vote in presidential elections, doesn't return lost wallets, and doesn't leave tips when dining out of town. Julie Nelson reminds us that most people aren't really like that. She helps point the way to a richer, more descriptive way of thinking about economic life.”
“Given the central role of effective, firmwide risk management in maintaining strong financial institutions, it is clear that supervisors must redouble their efforts to help organizations improve their risk-management practices...We are also considering the need for additional or revised supervisory guidance regarding various aspects of risk management, including further emphasis on the need for an enterprise-wide perspective when assessing risk.”
“Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.”
“What keeps things going, what sustains families, what makes work meaningful, what contributes to our wellbeing and what really connects us to Nature is cooperation”
“A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.”
“Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.”

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