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  • For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Understanding Quotes , Laziness Quotes
  • It's just very hard to teach a class of students about what has happened in the Global Financial Crisis, how we ended up there and how we got to where we are today, without having some basic, non-trivial understanding of the financial sector, credit, and the banking system.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan M. Taylor Quotes , Class Quotes , Understanding Quotes
  • The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , People Quotes , Understanding Quotes