#mic

A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence. ↗

— John Bruton

#confidence #destroy #economic #nuclear #terrorist

It is a curious thought that the earliest description of the steam-engine in antiquity describes its use for the magic opening of the temple doors, when the priests lit the fires on the altars, to deceive the populace into ascribing to a deity what was the work of the engineer. In much the same way today, the almost boundless fecundity of the creative scientific discoveries and inventions of the age are being appropriated for the purpose of the mysterious opening of doors into the holy of holies of the temples of mammon by a hierarchy of imposters and humbugs, whom it is the first task of a sane civilization to expose and clear out. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#money #politics #science #technocracy #age

We favor the economic unification of Germany. If complete unification cannot be secured, we shall do everything in our power to secure the maximum possible unification. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#complete #economic #everything #favor #germany

Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse. ↗

— Vince Cable

#banks #been #governance #leading #our

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#constraint #horror #nature #rhythmic

Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys. ↗

— Bert Campaneris

#famous #gehrig #guys #joe #joe dimaggio

It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it seems, Wall Street is using government bailouts to lever up. ↗

— Maria Cantwell

#acting #appears #bailouts #capital #companies

We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#chance #consider #duties #economic #functions

If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that. ↗

— George Carey

#believe #christians #conflict #disappointed #doubt

The ability to feel and express genuine gratitude for the help given when it is needed most, for the gift or boon that is given at just the right time and under the right circumstances, is a way of surrendering one’s self to benevolent external forces. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#author-stephen-richards #cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #manifestation #manifesting