"The very nature of finance is that it……" — Alan Greenspan
"The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion."
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But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to…
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Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.
— Tony Blair
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I remember my wife wanted me to go see 'Contagion,' and I was like, 'Oh my God, why would I…
— Steve Carell
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Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I…
— Louis Pasteur
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There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.
— Alexander Hamilton
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Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.
— William Shakespeare
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He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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It feels like a rash. It suddenly seems like I've got a contagion of diseases, I mean awards. But it's…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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Unresolved emotional pain is the great contagion of our time — of all time.
— Marc Ian Barasch
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of…
— Victor Hugo
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