John Buchanan Robinson Quotes
The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
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On YouTube you can tell what countries are watching and I've definitely noted a strong Australian following. You can plan your tours around where the love is on Twitter and YouTube - before, you couldn't tell.
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I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.
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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
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No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
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I'm not a lawyer- I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM.
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The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.
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A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
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The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.
