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In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

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Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

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If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty. ↗

— David Korten

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Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end. ↗

— Charlton Heston

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In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

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One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

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Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. ↗

— Henry Ford

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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts. ↗

— Derek Walcott

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