Quotes 21 till 40 of 40.
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My obligation is to the owners of Barclays, my shareholders. They hired me. People who criticise compensation for individuals in isolation at, say, BarCap, individuals who don't work in the U.K. and are competing with U.S., German or Asian banks, they should look at all these factors.
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Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
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One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.
The Player of Games (1988) 279 -
Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.
The State of the Art (1991) 75 -
Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
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The banks have accounts with the Fed, much the same way that you have an account in a commercial bank.
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The big banks advise cities about whether privatization is a wise choice. They also control the ability of states and cities to access the market for their financing needs.
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The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.
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The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.
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The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
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The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
As quoted in "Leaving the fold: testimonies of former fundamentalists" by Edward T. Babinski, Prometheus Books, 1995, p. 435 -
The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
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There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.
Use of Weapons (1990) 303 -
When the U.K. or U.S. government issues bonds to fund a deficit, the buyers are not solely in the U.K. or the U.S. - they're in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Investment banks provide direct access to these buyers.
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When they told me there would be a statue erected at Wrigley Field, I was happy with that. I know there will be a meeting place for a lot of people. There will be a conversation every day. They say now, 'I'll meet you at Ernie Banks' statue.' After Sept. 7, they'll say, 'I'll meet you by Billy Williams' statue.'
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Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.
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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.
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You're a wicked man. Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice.
Use of Weapons (1990) 237 -
I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage.
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