#posed

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#bank #bankers #fell #i #lend

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose. ↗

— Mark Cuban

#business #capital #growing #lost #market

Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption. ↗

— Evan Davis

#assume #assumption #behaviour #behavioural #deviate

In addition to a timeline, I have proposed that U.S. troops be removed from front line combat positions in Iraqi cities and towns, turning over daily security patrols, interactions with citizens, and any offensive security actions to the Iraqis themselves. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#addition #any #cities #citizens #combat

The Marshall is supposed to be 200 watts, but mine's never worked right; it peaks out at 80. ↗

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

#mine #never #out #peaks #right

I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one. ↗

— Patrick Dempsey

#big family #children #easier #family #having

I look at Jessica Alba and think she's got a great body. I think that's what women are supposed to look like. ↗

— Ashley Tisdale

#got #great #i #i think #jessica

I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#bedroom #bought #distracted #end #exposed

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#art form #become #breathing #breathing thing #form

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

#dad #did #electric #guitars #kind