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A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for. ↗

— Martin Buber

#become #been #beyond #cannot #created

Evil societies always kill their consciences. ↗

— James L. Farmer, Jr.

#consciences #evil #kill #societies #their

When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up. ↗

— Michael Buble

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Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop. ↗

— James Buchan

#even #financial #financial crises #fireworks #go

We only understand that which already is within us. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#only #understand #us #which #within

Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age. ↗

— James Buchan

#any #challenges #chief #financial #must

Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929. ↗

— James Buchan

#bits #bulls #crash #dust #dutch

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting. ↗

— James Buchan

#accounts #before #brown #came #cash

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security. ↗

— James Buchan

#bloody #bombers #both #brutal #chance

Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise. ↗

— James Buchan

#individualism #islam #liberty #likewise #muslim