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The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.


Ernest Dimnet


#history #illuminates #interests #only #past

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.


Harry A. Blackmun


#direction #looking #men #other #right

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.


Evan Davis


#academia #bench #chair #chairs #describe

As it happens, I have personally been something of an enthusiast for the London Olympic games, mainly on the grounds a) that a bit of wasteland will be made nice and b) that it tends to make everybody happy that their country should be the centre of world attention for a couple of weeks in their life.


Evan Davis


#been #bit #centre #country #couple

Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.


Evan Davis


#american #another #bad #black #christmas

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.


Mark Twain


#great #happened #i #i am #known

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.


Gene Tierney


#gave #his #money #notoriously #rarely

I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box.


Evan Davis


#always #bbc #been #box #caravan

Interest rate cuts have an effect in stimulating an economy by directly or indirectly making someone, somewhere, spend more than they otherwise would. That extra spending increases demand and ensures that we all carry on with work to do, without us having to slash our prices or our wrists.


Evan Davis


#cuts #demand #directly #economy #effect

It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.


Evan Davis


#banks #borrow #borrowing #capital #cushion






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