#tie

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#frustrations #get #hostilities #paid #professions

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#believing #chastity #christian #christian religion #deadly

It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#been #cases #congress #constitutional #despite

If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#communities #decay #left #those #will

When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#bankruptcy #brink #chicago #cities #contrast

Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it. ↗

— Vince Cable

#corporate #entities #flagrant #must #seek

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. ↗

— Vince Cable

#aspect #balance #balance sheets #banking #banks

I'll do anything for $50. People are always trying to get me to do dumb things. The possibilities are endless. ↗

— Ryan Cabrera

#anything #dumb #endless #get #i

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#cities #city #cloud #continents #differences

And the reason for focusing on that time frame is that it's going to take us a considerable period of time to develop the new capabilities, processes and organizations that will be needed. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#considerable #develop #focusing #frame #going