“There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.” Quote by Brian Andreas
“Humor is an antidote to isolation.” LaughterIsolationAntidote Book:Improper behavior Source: Improper behavior
“Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.” Life IsFateHumourHugeLaughterAdvantagePossessingFarce Book:New Grub Street Source: New Grub Street
“I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.” PersonsMatterPlansCommitmentCommittedIdeologyAttractiveMotivatedVillainTwistedAttractivenessNo Commitment Author:Russell Crowe
“WikiLeaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any more than WikiLeaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks, Russian offshore stem-cell centers, former African kleptocrats, or the Pentagon.” DemandFormerCellsFreedom Of SpeechStemRequestAbusivePentagonSwissStem CellScientologyWikileaksOffshore Author:Julian Assange
“Banks and other providers of credit to households have been competing vigorously to expand or protect their market share. In the process, lending standards have been progressively eroded so that lenders are now engaging in practices that would have been regarded as out of the question five or ten years ago.” YearsHas BeensProcessPracticeFiveShareProtectTenStandardsYears AgoCompetitionCreditHouseholdCompetingEngagingLendingProvidersLenders Author:Ian Macfarlane
“A government cannot be expected to allow independence to its central bank unless that bank is also accountable to it and to the wider public. That is, the central bank must be able to be judged on whether or not it has achieved its agreed objective.” GovernmentAbleAchievementIndependenceExpectedObjectivesJudgedCentral Banks Author:Ian Macfarlane
“As bank customers, we tend to believe that we can have both perfect security for our money, drawing on it whenever we want and never expecting it not to be there, while still earning a regular rate of return. In a true free market, however, there tends to be a tradeoff: you can enjoy a money warehouse or you can hope for a return on your investment. You can't usually have both. The Fed, however, by backing up this fractional-reserve system with a promise of endless bailouts and money creation, attempts to keep the illusion going.” WantBelieveStillsEnjoyPerfectSecurityCreationReturnPromiseIllusionInvestmentRateInvestingCustomersDrawingEndlessFedsExpectingReservesEarningFree MarketWarehouseBailoutsBacking Up Author:Ron Paul
“Welfarism and excessive spending and deficits and socialism divide us, because everybody has to go to Washington. Those who have the biggest clout, whose who are the best lobbyists, those who go and they grab. And whether it's the medical industrial complex, or the banking industry, or the military industrial complex, that's who ends up controlling our government...” EndsGovernmentMilitaryIndustryComplexesSpendingMedicalSocialismDividesBankingDeficitLobbyistsMilitary Industrial ComplexCloutExcessive Spending Author:Ron Paul
“Having examined the nature of fractional reserve and of central banking, and having seen how the questionable blessings of Central Banking were fastened upon America, it is time to see precisely how the Fed, as presently constituted, carries out its systemic inflation and its control of the American monetary system.” AmericaMoneyBlessingCarrieFedsReservesBankingInflationMonetaryQuestionableMonetary SystemCentral Banking Author:Murray Rothbard
“At the base of the Fed pyramid, and therefore of the bank system's creation of "money" in the sense of deposits, is the Fed's power to print legal tender money. But the Fed tries its best not to print cash but rather to "print" or create demand deposits, checking deposits, out of thin air, since its demand deposits constitute the reserves on top of which the commercial banks can pyramid a multiple creation of bank deposits, or "checkbook money."” TryingMoneyAirCreationDemandFedsPrintCashReservesMultiplePyramidsDepositsThin AirCommercial Banks Author:Murray Rothbard