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“Marriage emerged some forty-five hundred years ago and evolved into a widespread and accepted institution that bonded families, maintained order, and created wealth. Unlike today, where many of us are searching for our romantic "soul mate," marriage was originally more about economics than deep emotion.”

Years Soul Today Order Wealth Emotion Five Hundred Years Ago Economics Institutions Accepted Forty Mates Soul Mate Deep Emotions

Book:'Till Death Do Us Part: Love, Marriage, and the Mind of the Killer Spouse

Source: 'Till Death Do Us Part: Love, Marriage, and the Mind of the Killer Spouse

“We have to make sure that college is accessible and affordable. Two years ago, I stood here and called upon our institutions of higher learning to develop plans for degrees that cost no more than $10,000. There were plenty of detractors at that time who insisted it couldn't be done. However, that call inspired educators at colleges and universities across our state to step up to the plate. Today, I'm proud to tell you that thirteen Texas universities have announced plans for a $10,000 degree.”

“Tony Blair a couple years ago was going around apologizing for everything. He apologized for the Irish potato famine. The Canadian government apologized for how it treated Indian school children.When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?”

“I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.”

People Thinking Years Different Years Ago Institutions Notion Pairs Norm Credibility

Author:Zak Orth

“He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares men from their propriety, will a hundred years hence be regarded as a remarkably conservative man. And yet the people who stand peculiarly upon what they call the foundations of conservatism, and hold to hard, practical facts, now stand upon that which one hundred years ago was rank heresy.”

People Men Years Hard Facts Seems Today Hundred Years Ago Destruction Institutions Foundation Conservative Practicals Shock Scare Conservatism Heresy Propriety Premonition

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Apparently modern financial regulators are vastly more sophisticated than we were as financial regulators 25 years ago - because we had never figured out that the key to financial stability was leaving felons in charge of the largest financial institutions in the world.”

World Years Modern Keys Years Ago Institutions Leaving Financial Stability Sophisticated Regulators Financial Institutions Felons Financial Stability

Author:William K. Black

“Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.”

Years Long Two Whole Together Guy Fine Hundred Shots Built Years Ago Institutions Wigs Tuning Long Shots Fine Tuning

Author:Terence McKenna

“Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.”

“Two thousand years ago, God started a revolt against the religion He started. So don't ever put it past God to cause a groundswell movement against churches and Christian institutions that bear His name.”

Years Two Christian Past Names Causes Church Movement Bears Thousand Years Ago Institutions Thousand Years Revolt

Book:Unleashed: Release the Untamed Faith Within

Source: Unleashed: Release the Untamed Faith Within

“Management has failed miserably at creating increased value for shareholders. Indeed, despite some recent short-term gains, which actually only put us back where we were eight years ago, they have been devaluing our assets, turning a unique institution into just another entertainment company.”

Years Has Beens Values Term Company Creating Unique Gains Years Ago Management Institutions Entertainment Eight Despite Assets Short Term Shareholders

Author:Roy O. Disney

“That's been lost. It's a huge problem. What you have is you have the major institutions of the world all wanting to deleverage. They want to take down their assets and liabilities. What seemed so easy to borrow against a year ago now looks like rat poison to them. So they're trying to deleverage. There is only one institution in the world that can leverage up in a way that's all a countervailing force to that, and that's the United States Treasury.”

World Way Want Trying Years Looks States Problem Lost Force Easy United United States Huge Majors Years Ago Institutions Poison Assets Rats Treasury Liability Assets And Liabilities

Author:Warren Buffett