#serves

Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#dollars #equal #i #imports #more

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat. ↗

— Huston Smith

#breeds #community #differences #drawn #first

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream. ↗

— Mark Strand

#certainly #clear #cultural #cultures #i

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#constraints #execution #frees #imposes #more

Even the National Bank of Romania doesn't have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at an acceptable level, because they're drawing close to a floor below which the bank's reserves can't drop. The central bank has to wait for a moment of calm to efficiently conduct its interventions. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#bank #because #below #calm #central

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. ↗

— Edward Dowden

#failure #faithfully #noble #serves #sometimes

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one. ↗

— Merle Travis

#credit #deserves #miner #more #mother

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#deserves #every #every day #justifies #only

Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. ↗

— Harpo Marx

#deserves #finds #good #good husband #her

TSA serves as the operator, administrator and regulator for the nation's transportation security. But in fact, the TSA bureaucracy does all it can to thwart any conversion to a system with more private-sector operations and strong federal oversight and standards. This agency cannot, and should not, do it all. ↗

— John Mica

#agency #any #bureaucracy #cannot #conversion