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  • Before Enron, I think people were a bit more naive about the way things worked, and I think Enron pulled the curtain back on unsavoury practices that turned out to be a lot more widespread.
  • THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.

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  • J. G. Ballard A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Bethany McLean Before Enron, I think people were a bit more naive about the way things worked, and I think Enron pulled the curtain back on unsavoury practices that turned out to be a lot more widespread.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • John Berger Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Bernard Bailyn In England the practice of virtual representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 167
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Frank Herbert One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
    Frank Herbert
    American science fiction writer (1920 - 1986)
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  • Cyril Parkinson The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
    Cyril Parkinson
     
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  • Bill Alexander The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people.
    Memorials of the Spanish Civil War: the official publication of the International Brigade Association
    Bill Alexander
    German painter, art instructor, and television host (1915 - 1997)
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  • Benjamin Graham THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.
    Storage and Stability Part III, Ch. XIII, The Reservoir Plan and Credit
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Carl Sagan Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.
    Billions and Billions: Thoughts of Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (1997) Ch. 14, The Common Enemy
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bob Barr Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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