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  • Ben Bernanke The failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated that liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve would not be sufficient to stop the crisis; substantial fiscal resources were necessary.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Confucius The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Atom Egoyan The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • O. J. Simpson The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.
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  • Bernie Sanders The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Anthony Minghella The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.
    Anthony Minghella
    British film director, playwright and screenwriter (1954 - 2008)
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  • George Orwell The fight against bad English is not frivolous.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Atom Egoyan The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the movement is through zoom; every time we have a film camera it is a physical movement.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Armistead Maupin The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Seneca The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Sir William Osler The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Charles Buxton The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.
    Charles Buxton
    British writer (1823 - 1871)
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  • J. B. Priestley The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Maria Montessori The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Bellamy Young The First Lady is such a fascinating office to hold. You're not elected, but it's very much official. You can see the latitude of power of that office.
    Bellamy Young
    American actress and singer (1970 - )
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  • Richard P. Feynman The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
    Richard P. Feynman
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel price winner (1918 - 1988)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it 'CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL'; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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