Axiom Attic
“Really bad art requires special talents.”
Laura Shefler
“No bird soars too high, if he flies with his own wings.”
William Blake, in “Proverbs of Hell”
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“The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”
John Maynard Keynes
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“There are some people whom it is one’s duty to offend.”
Baron John Reith of Stonehaven
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“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
Upton Sinclair
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“Some great and glorious day the plain folks of this land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
H.L. Mencken
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“Actually, drunken sailors tend to spend their own money. By contemporary standards, they’re quite prudent.”
John Lanchester (London Review of Books)
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“No bad loan goes unsubsidized.”
Steve Alber, part-time pundit
Comment by Steve Alber — March 18, 2008 @ 9:09 am
Ah, so. But it must be a ridiculously BIG bad loan. For small bad loans, the subsidy goes to the culprit and the borrower is foreclosed upon.
Comment by Al — March 18, 2008 @ 2:36 pm