#great

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#crisis #depression #despite #essentially #federal

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

#cause #greatest #politician #render #serviceable

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals. ↗

— Dorothy Height

#goals #greatness #his #man #measured

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God. ↗

— Lactantius

#compels #god #gods #greatest #highest

Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth. ↗

— Lactantius

#authority #because #believed #come #fiction

Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended. ↗

— Lactantius

#aside #beginning #cannot #comprehended #corrupt

I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#been #did #extremely #got #great

We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#coast #depression #east #east coast #everyone

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#been #business #good #great #great respect

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#before #better #day #ever #every