#alan

Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong." ~Albert Einstein "Einstein is referring to ones 'legacy' and its intended future recipients as being willfully purposed to benefit them on their journey through this gift of life given to us by God ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#knowledge-wisdom #legacy #r-alan-woods #study #beauty

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. ↗

— Vince Cable

#aspect #balance #balance sheets #banking #banks

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living. ↗

— James Cameron

#bicycles #brooding #civil #civil servants #cost

People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don't know him at all. ↗

— Neve Campbell

#either #every #films #him #his

But, on balance, we seized the marketplace. We've got a great infrastructure. And yes it's struggling in some areas because of some external factors and some internal factors. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

#balance #because #external #factors #got

Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket. ↗

— Lillian Gordy Carter

#family #i #jimmy #lie #never

I'll always understand the Schadenfreude aspect to short-selling. I get that no one will always like it. I'm also convinced to the deepest part of my bones that short-selling plays the role of real-time financial watchdog. It's one of the few checks and balances in the market. ↗

— James Chanos

#always #aspect #balances #bones #checks

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance. ↗

— Prince Charles

#celebrated #edifice #imposing #like #medicine

The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#companies #file #forced #imbalance #important

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#become #checks #dictator #through #you