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We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#back #banking #century #crises #depression

The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#because #crime #criminal #criminal law #denounce

The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#continent #development #great #lack #lain

We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#capital #competent #country #development #direction

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today! ↗

— Billy Sunday

#backsliding #cast #causes #church #conversion

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#devil #hell #hell is #highest #highest reward

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#christianity #church #devil #god #god almighty

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#door #him #inviting #keyhole #looking

The devil says I'm out, but the Lord says I'm safe. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#i #lord #out #safe #says

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time. ↗

— Joan Sutherland

#basic #basis #comes #develop #doing