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"There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers."
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"He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an insurance fee amounting to much less that the current rates of interest charged by banks, whose rates were based on supply and demand, treating money as a commodity rather than as a sovereign state's means of exchange."
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"Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple."
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Personal Development
"When you work hard in a job that suits your living standards, never greed for fortune because you will distract yourself from fulfilling other important priorities and participating in leisure activities in your current life. You will eventually gain the fortune if you set up a wise investment goal by having pride and confidence on your savings."
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"I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit."
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"The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands."
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"If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow."
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"And then you might decide that the country can just spend maybe years or decades to regain that credit, or maybe give that county the support, the financial support that the market is not willing not do."
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"You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo."
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"Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration."
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"What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking."
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"Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam."
Experience
"There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers."
Finance
"I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war."
War
"It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves."
People
"All war aims for impunity."
War
"There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem."
Media
"There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism."
Patriotism
"Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted."
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"I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism."
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"The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control."
War
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