#ric

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine. ↗

— John Gay

#company #contempt #dear #fit #gentleman

When I grew up Carl Lewis was still running, Maurice Greene was running - he was that figure I see, like Michael Johnson. I really wanted to look up to the fast guys - so those two guys were some of the guys I looked up to. ↗

— Tyson Gay

#fast #figure #greene #grew #guys

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers. ↗

— Gordon Gee

#duty #fabric #produce #universe #university

The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#always #brother #donkey #father #favor

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

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#historically #meaning #socially

We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#anthropology #back #body #fall #knowledge

We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#bear #broader #brought #companies #consequences

And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#america #business #case #damage #doing