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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.


William Ellery Channing


#books #chiefly #enjoy #give #great

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.


William Ellery Channing


#compass #conscience #far #great #however

Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many.


James Chanos


#bubble #buildings #call #come #complex

So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money.


James Chanos


#default #everyone #good #greece #history

The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse.


James Chanos


#back #bad #child #china #companies

The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.


James Chanos


#basically #bit #business #businessmen #casinos

It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself.


Tom Chapin


#backstage #believe #both #canadian #festival

The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story was then picked up by one of the nationals and things grew from there.


Benjamin Cohen


#after #came #chronicle #first #grew

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.


George Chapman


#greatness #height #spirits #stretch #worthy

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.


Geraldine Ferraro


#elected #i #lawyer #trial #trial lawyer