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Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#being #change #companies #demanded #done

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#corporate #management #obligation #parameters #profit

The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there. ↗

— Steven Squyres

#earth #enough #having #hold #imagine

For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer. ↗

— Jean Stafford

#holds #knowledge #life #me #my life

In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#bill #bright #co-operation #conditions #enterprise

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age. ↗

— Freya Stark

#am #faith #hands #hold #i

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#attempt #authority #comes #effort #hold

In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will. ↗

— Edith Stein

#eternal #god #hold #image #keep

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#grow #horrifying #occasionally #older #pants

The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl! ↗

— Hailee Steinfeld

#cigarette #funny #girl #gun #guns