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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#beyond #circumstances #conduct #control #human

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#convincing #going #had #hard #hard time

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#best #i #i think #seems #still

But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose of taking the savings of Americans and from investors around the world and allocating those to people with an idea, not just the largest companies in the country, but to small businesses with an idea and a plan for growing. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#around #back #businesses #companies #core

In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#concentrated #crises #financial #financial crises #financial system

In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#comedy #drama #films #genre #getting

I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying. ↗

— Uri Geller

#dream #dreaming #dreams #especially #fly

Teens are dealing with the same problems now in the '90s as they did back in the '70s, the only real difference is the clothes we wear! ↗

— Mila Kunis

#clothes #dealing #did #difference #now

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#decks #ever #find #greater #piracy

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#bad #because #dreams #even #i