#ge

We were taking out mortgages we couldn’t afford because they were camouflaged to look as if we had a reasonable chance of paying them back. Banks then changed the bankruptcy laws so that we could not get out of our obligations once the rates changed. Lastly, they sold us back our own mortgages, shifting back to us any of the risk through our money-market accounts and pension funds. ↗

— Douglas Rushkoff

#wall-street #change

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool. ↗

— Criss Jami

#falsehood #fool #foolish #genius #honesty

I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest. ↗

— Martin Frost

#believed #challenging #i #republicans #strongest

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#been #between #enthusiasm #ever #feet

It seemed like a mistake. And mistakes ought to be rectified, only this one couldn't be. Between the way things used to be and the way they were now was a void that couldn't be crossed. I had to find an explanation other than the real one, which was that we were no more immune to misfortune than anybody else, and the idea that kept recurring to me...was that I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn't have gone through and couldn't get back to the place I hadn't meant to leave. Actually, it was other way round: I hadn't gone anywhere and nothing was changed, so far as the roof over our heads was concerned, it was just that she was in the cemetery. ↗

— William Maxwell

#change

There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions. ↗

— David Frum

#privileged #right #tank #these #think

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. ↗

— Elizabeth Fry

#criminal #lessen #punishment #reform #revenge

I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#truth #wisdom #intelligence

We are so lucky Americans are impressive with what they're willing to give. We get bashed too much. And, so many young people in this country give so much. They're not all gang bangers. ↗

— Jami Gertz

#country #gang #get #give #impressive

Shortly afterwards my father told me that he might be going into the Eastern Zone of Germany. At that time my own mind was closer to his than it had ever been before, because he also believed that they are at least trying to build a new world. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#also #because #been #before #believed