Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Quotes Quotes, Real Quotes, Land Quotes

Instability mostly comes from the interface between the fact that the banks (or shadow banks) can create credit, money, and purchasing power in infinite quantities if we don't constrain them, and the fact that credit is primarily created to fund the purchase of urban real estate and land, which is somewhat fixed in supply.

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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

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I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

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[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.

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As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied the people grow poorer and poorer. When they are subjected to overmuch government, the land is thrown into confusion.

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How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.

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In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.

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O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice! O harvest of my lands! O boundless summer growths! O lavish, brown, parturient earth! O infinite, teeming womb! A verse to seek, to see, to narrate thee.

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We must, therefore, coolly and objectively adopt the standpoint that it can certainly not be the intention of Heaven to give one people fifty times as much land and soil in this world as another.

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I grew up in the country, which is probably why I'm so attached to the land. I love it. I love the lay of the land. I love walking the land. And I love knowing that it's my land.

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Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.

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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.

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It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men.

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Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.

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[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.

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You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

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America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

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Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.

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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

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I watched the land for as long as I could, until it disappeared behind its shawl of mist, and until I had it fixed in my mind - unchanged, mysterious and beautiful

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