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I've got to say our banking system is a safe and a sound one. And since the days when we've had federal deposit insurance in place, we haven't had a depositor who's got less than $100,000 in an account lose a penny. So the American people can be very, very confident about their accounts in our banking system. Henry Paulson

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Too much redesign has to do more with fad and fashion than with fitness and function. It is change for the sake of change. Such redesign is not only unnecessary, it is all too often also retrogressive, leading to things that work less effectively than those they were designed to replace. Henry Petroski

Work Fitness Fashion Change Too Much Too Those Unnecessary More Only Fad Leading Also Redesign Sake Were Effectively Replace Than Often Much Less Function Things Designed

Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you're playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us? Henry Rollins

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You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment. Henry Rollins

Me You Will Gun More More Or Less Feel Safe Make None Pass Than Any Legislation Want Less Moment Right

Whether solid rockets are more or less likely to fail than liquid-fuel rockets is debatable. More serious, though, is that when they do fail, it's usually violent and spectacular. Henry Spencer

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Trying to build a spaceship by making an aeroplane fly faster and higher is like trying to build an aeroplane by making locomotives faster and lighter - with a lot of effort, perhaps you could get something that more or less works, but it really isn't the right way to proceed. Henry Spencer

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From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process. Herman Kahn

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Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas. Hermann Ebbinghaus

Change Degree Example Perception Other Constantly Given Directions For Example Ideas Greater Occurs Stimuli According Accuracy Interest Certainly Less External

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series. Hermann Ebbinghaus

Day Needs Learning Heart First Half Relation Learned Were Repeating Repetitions Than Shortest Less English Series Amplification Syllable Necessary

One victory more or less doesn't make the difference for me now. Hermann Maier

Me Victory More More Or Less Make Difference Less Now

The editorial strategy of the 'World' is seemingly rested upon the theory that in a desperate cause, it is well to ask a little less than you hope to get. I think you should ask more. Heywood Broun

Hope You World Cause Desperate Strategy Think Rested Seemingly More Well Editorial Than Get Little Ask Should Less Theory

Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war. Hjalmar Branting

From a young age, watching my father embark on daring, and often dangerous, adventures in the name of Virgin almost become the norm. I'm not saying it became any less nerve-wracking waiting for his safe return - but, over time, it encouraged a new way of thinking for myself and my brother Sam. Holly Branson

Saying Time Myself Age Waiting Dangerous Father Become Young Thinking Way Embark Daring Brother Almost Over Adventures New Name Safe Return Became His Norm Encouraged Sam New Way Any Often Young Age Less Watching

You can't drive through Iowa and not think about farming: No less than 85 percent of the land in the state is devoted to farms, many of them more than 1,000 acres. This is the place where seeds are sown. It's where farmers grow the corn that will be fed to pigs as grain or fed to you as syrup or fermented to ethanol for your gas tank. Hope Jahren

You Will Drive Think Corn State Syrup Seeds About Percent More Fed Through Devoted Iowa Pigs Tank Than Sown Where Grain Place Them Land Ethanol Acres Your Farmers Farming Less Farms Many Grow Gas

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement. Horace

Truth Art Great Achievement Book Liar Nothing Great Art Say Something Writes Like Call Makes None However Less Whole

The day I don't attend to my nostrils is the day I will have forsworn that world and become a different person. Someone otherwise preoccupied. Someone who couldn't care less what anyone thinks of his appearance - someone for whom the material life has lost its appeal. Howard Jacobson

Life Day World Care Will Become Lost Otherwise Someone Attend Material His Person Different Anyone Different Person Less Who Appeal Preoccupied Appearance Whom Thinks

It is against the spirit of our non-discriminating times to openly prefer one sort of music to another, so let's just say that hearing grand orchestral music in a public place is exhilarating in a way that hearing popular music never can be, if only because, in a popular music age, a full orchestra is less familiar to our ears. Howard Jacobson

Music Age Our Ears Way Say Spirit Only Never Openly Sort Another Because Exhilarating Hearing Familiar Times Orchestra Just Orchestral Grand Place Against Public Prefer Full Less Popular Popular Music

The more educated we are, the less we are prepared to tolerate views contrary to our own. Howard Jacobson

Own Our More Educated Contrary Less Views Tolerate Prepared

In the 1960s, if you introduced a new product to America, 90% of the people who viewed it for the first time believed in the corporate promise. Then 40 years later if you performed the same exercise, less than 10% of the public believed it was true. The fracturing of trust is based on the fact that the consumer has been let down. Howard Schultz

Time You Trust People First Down Corporate Later Has-Been Promise Introduced Fact Consumer True Performed New Exercise First Time Been Years Than America Same Public Then Product Viewed Less Who Let Down Believed Based

We need to reinvent food at Starbucks. Less could be more. Howard Schultz

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The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that's really not true for most domestic film industries. It's no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K. Howard Stringer

France Melting Melting Pot Pot Part True Boundaries Longer Most Industries Because Makes Cultural Italy Domestic Than America American Movie Movies American Movie Really Across Used Less Appeal International Film

Everything has gotten less expensive. Digitization has made content, whether it's print or music, less costly. Today, anyone can read the news for free online. Hubert Burda

Today Music News Made Free Everything Costly Online Read Print Content Gotten Expensive Anyone Whether Less

It's really frightening, American food on the whole. That's what always strikes me, coming from Europe: There's just so much of it! Then you plop down in front of the TV and watch ads for Weight Watchers. 'Lose weight now!' Well, eat less! Hugh Grant

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