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The 2008 financial crisis is usually attributed to vampire squid greed. There was certainly a lot of that. But it was also just as likely to have been caused by the chaos of process created by those big, sexy bank mergers when, in the name of 'economies of scale,' critical members of the trust and responsibility chain were cavalierly eliminated. Tina Brown
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I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression. Timothy Noah
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance. Warren Stephens
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We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered. Warren Stephens
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We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country. Warren Stephens
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The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting. William Kirby
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Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water. Zubin Mehta
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I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people. Elizabeth Warren
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Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine. Elizabeth Warren
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff. Yahoo Serious
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It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community. Thorstein Veblen
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Sometimes being a musician has little to do with viability and everything to do with survivability. Many musicians start out great, and they wind up out of the business in 10 years. Todd Rundgren
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To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart. Thomas J. Watson
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One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in - I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece. Imelda May
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money. Ian Watson
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I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs. Gladys Knight
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I had tremendous success in show business - star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'The Apprentice' was one of the most successful shows. Donald Trump
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You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags. Zac Goldsmith
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The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy. Timothy Noah
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South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. Ice Cube
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I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European. Zubin Mehta
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And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park. Christo
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Comedy Central is what these young people are viewing. The network speaks to their audience, which is saying, 'Give me fast jokes. Give me party stories and party language.' Bill Cosby
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Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity. Noah Feldman
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The 1980s was the last decade of large suburban expansion. The '90s were a re-sorting era, with the central city gaining population after decades of decline. Now we're in a decade trending toward a fairly large-scale re-sorting of the housing market away from the far reaches of suburbia. Chris Nelson
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That was a good redemption game for us. The girls knew that they played poorly the night before and wanted to show Central what we are really made of. Stephanie Dietz
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In the central Indian state of Orissa, mining has scarred the landscape, and it is already too late to secure most of the traditional elephant corridors. Mark Shand
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I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men. Warren Farrell
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I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made. Walead Beshty
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They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again. Walter Crane
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We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint. Warren Stephens
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The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully. William Kirby
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I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them. Vikram Seth
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My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life. Zubin Mehta
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Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding. Ellen Key
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I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things are not working the way they should. When the time comes, I will put myself forward. Yoshihiko Noda
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Nuclear weapons are infinitely less important in our foreign policy than they were in the days of the Cold War. I don't think we need nuclear weapons any longer. Des Browne
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For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions. Vladimir Potanin
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Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends. Bill Vaughan
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History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good. Samantha Power
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You annex foreign land, not your own country. Menachem Begin
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I'm very happy to be a foreigner in Japan, and I can't think of a more wonderful place to live, but at the same time, I would never want to be Japanese, because they are subject to stresses that I am not. Pico Iyer
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For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war. Richard Engel
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We have a good relationship with Russia, ... President Yeltsin was not pleased he was not consulted, but the Russian government -- the foreign ministry -- said that they supported the effort. Bill Richardson
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Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama. Iris Johansen
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The polio virus that hit Indonesia has been proven to have a high rate of attack, Siti Supari
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The overall picture is of an operator aggressively maintaining its market position in a highly competitive market, and sacrificing margin to do it. David Kennedy
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The Patriots have sort of become the measuring stick in the NFL, but that stick isn't very high right now. Mike Vrabel
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Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it. David H. Murdock
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You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go. Neil Peart
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The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not. Rand Paul
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A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. Gordon B. Hinckley
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When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme. Frank Quattrone
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I want to lower taxes for the middle class. Donald Trump
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A newspaper is the lowest thing there is. Richard Daley
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The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws. Juan Williams
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We were struggling to score low a little bit, but everyone had fun, Wayne Levi
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We're up 15 or 20 percent off our (July 24) lows. But September is a tricky month historically. We could retest recent lows by as much as 10 percent before we're able to really move higher. Tom Shrader
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We're really low on numbers, especially wide receivers. Do you want to do it? Pete Carroll
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Most Americans spend more than they usually have, which is why we have the lowest savings rate in the world. David Tronson
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While we're OK with the results, they were probably a little low to even our expectations. Jim Shaw
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I thought he would be a low second- or third-round pick. I think most people had him in that area, but for whatever reason, he fell. Andy Reid
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Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally. Barry O'Farrell
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Whether will the twain will ye that I release unto you? Pontius Pilate
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You can always find Curtis, whether it's the Jeep or the Big Bird. Dick Hill
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Whether I can get it done is another question. Kevin Lowe
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Whether he didn't see him or doesn't want to say, I don't know. Bill Smith
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Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse. Martha Stewart
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Whether you win by one-point or 20, it doesn't matter. You still get the title. Cary Finberg
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Whether you're 9 or 90, you can play this game. Jim Lehrer
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I'm not going to say whether I'm a Republican or a Democrat. Hugh Shelton
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Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. William Shakespeare
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Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is. David Guterson
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Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards. Carlos Slim
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end. Agnes Repplier
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A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best Charles Spurgeon
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When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us. Aiden Wilson Tozer
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God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust Aiden Wilson Tozer
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It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will. David Brainerd
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This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot. Barney Frank