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It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion. ↗

— Evan Davis

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Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify. ↗

— Evan Davis

#consumption #element #enters #expensive #extra

Well they're very, very genuine concerns at present as to the status of the 800 people who are to be sent by Australia to Malaysia. There's concern about the status of asylum seekers in Malaysia generally, but there's concern about the status of the 800 to be sent. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#asylum #australia #concern #concerns #generally

Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here. ↗

— Gray Davis

#apple #approach #bites #buying #charged

Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market. ↗

— Gray Davis

#deregulated #energy #energy companies #flawed #had

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#bearing #benefit #cost #decent #few

The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to do their jobs. ↗

— Hope Davis

#experience #general #hard #jobs #network

While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#brackets #completely #cuts #day #families

We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves. ↗

— Jo Ann Davis

#benefit #doing #exercising #giving #going

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

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