Ian Stannard Quotes
We think next year will be a very different story as excess global liquidity, the driver for carry trades, is drained by central banks.
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I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
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Saint Joseph's still is among the smaller-enrollment institutions with a big-time basketball program. The Jesuits still offer the same high-quality education. St. Joe's students and alumni are as supportive as ever, and their spirit is unquenchable.
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I'm extremely superstitious.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.
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Impulses are hard to come by these days.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
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I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.
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There are calm Korean players and not calm. There are calm Western players.
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Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.
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Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords.
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One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I light a cigar to pass the time, and think: God only knows what the good Lord really meant with me, or what He meant to make of me.
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We think next year will be a very different story as excess global liquidity, the driver for carry trades, is drained by central banks.
