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There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#basic #causing #crises #damage #economy

On the unofficial level it was a glorious moment in our national life because young people decided that this had to stop, that they could no longer stand the shedding of blood in this tragic adventure in Southeast Asia. ↗

— William Kunstler

#asia #because #blood #could #decided

I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#along #beats #case #comes #disappears

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#bad #because #dreams #even #i

Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations. ↗

— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

#history #native-american #violence #experience

I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#because #everything #fearful #feels #fragile

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#always #been #cast #deposit #ear

I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know anybody who's married for a long time who hasn't somehow made room in their love story for the hate and resentment that they sometimes feel toward each other. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#anybody #each #feel #happy #hasn

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me. ↗

— Althea Gibson

#always #because #cared #enough #game

I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night. ↗

— Nelson Gidding

#alone #always #been #being #bump