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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance. Warren Stephens
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We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered.
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We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.
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The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting.
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Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water. Zubin Mehta
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I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people. Elizabeth Warren
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Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine.
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Other countries around the world make employees and retirees first in the priority. For example, in Mexico, the bankruptcy laws say if a company wants to go bankrupt... obligations to employees and retirees will have a first priority. That has an effect on every negotiation that takes place with every company in Mexico.
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Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women.
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Canada should always open its doors to those who are oppressed or in cases of emergency. When Canada offered refuge to 50,000 boat people in Vietnam in the 1970s, I was particularly proud to be Canadian. David Suzuki
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I know that a prime minister of Canada needs to be deeply respectful of the other levels of government - whether it be municipal, provincial, or even nation-to-nation relationships with aboriginal governments. Justin Trudeau
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I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law. Paul Martin
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What we have today is the departure of the first group ... which is going to travel to Canada.
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The tar sands has changed Canada in the same way the fur trade has changed Canada. Andrew Nikiforuk
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We actually wrote the record in and out of Canada, where we live, in sort of cottage country. ... We were at a lake, around campfires, writing music. Adam Gontier
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We are glad that two of these senior citizens didn't fall for the scams. Unfortunately, criminals in Canada have taken millions of dollars out of Wisconsin in recent years. We are working with the Royal Canada Mounted Police to fight these rip-off artists.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war. Feist
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall. Dan Aykroyd
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When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace. Ellen Key
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The pink slip is precipitously delivered. It's not as if the worker caused the job loss, nor is it that they even wanted to shift gears or that they were tired,
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The overall damage caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita has shown them to be the greatest natural disasters to oil and gas development in this history of the Gulf of Mexico.
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The pause in economic growth and the drop in confidence will probably cause the Fed to tighten later rather than sooner. The earliest I can see them tightening is the end of June, and they could quite possibly wait until August.
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The pathogens that cause disease have conditions in which they live, just like we do. We have to combine the physical data with what we know in the medical world.
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Cause when you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last. Dave Grohl
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With such irresistible evidence before us of the great and rapid progress of abolitionism without the slightest indication of abatement, he is blind who does not see, if the state of things which has caused it should be permitted to continue, that it will speedily be too late, if not to save ourselves, to save the Union. John C. Calhoun
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Every increase of protective duties is necessarily followed, in the present condition of our country, by an expansion of the currency, which must continue to increase till the increased price of production, caused by the expansion, shall be equal to the duty imposed, when a new tariff will be required.
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What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it away or minimize it, than point it out and cause the liar embarrassment? Walter Kirn
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I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others. Abraham Lincoln
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The political world now recognizes that there is a gay and lesbian vote. Our numbers are significant and we can make a difference in these races.
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If I don't like what I'm wearing, you can see it on my face in any picture right away. It makes a big difference when you feel like you're wearing your style, and it's something that you picked out, or you feel really good in it. Brittany Snow
difference people telling
There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details. Simon Sinek
difference
We have made a difference and I think this will be the same. Jose Cuevas
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The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.
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There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands. Corey Taylor
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We had a quick one early on but the second one was a major one, it lasted a minute. The big difference in their 5-on-3? They made the play. Rob Blake
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I think growing up in South Africa, and then moving to Canada, I'm just genuinely interested in the difference between the First World and the Third World, immigration, and how the new, globalized world is beginning to operate. All of those things run through my mind a lot. Neill Blomkamp
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The overcrowding problem is likely to get worse.
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The overall total of nominal sales is likely to remain somewhat weak.
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I'm much more likely to get lynched over 'The Killing' than 'Macbeth.' David Hewson
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Studies show that women are more likely than men to die in natural disasters. Women's voices must be heard.
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I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed. Trip Adler
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Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent. William Gilmore Simms
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There are any number of men who have this problem, too. But when you say who's more likely (to say yes), it's more likely to be women.
likely
A nation that mistreats its own citizens is more likely to mistreat its neighbours. Oscar Arias
likely running tough
If you're running for office, it's tough to be an incumbent. It's tough to run out of Washington. It's better to be an outsider. And Establishment support doesn't help; it more likely hurts. Mark McKinnon
peaks
I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy. Roberto Benigni
peak
Typically, you're going to set your peak in August," () Scott McCloud
peak reached
We have not yet reached the peak of this epidemic.
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We're running out of snow for the watershed. This will probably be the peak they see this year, but there's no guarantee.
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Ultimately unemployment will peak somewhere around 6.2 or 6.3 percent, Jared Bernstein
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You usually reach a peak a week after a storm.
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All I had to do was to get them into shape and keep them there, ... I'm just trying to get them to peak at the right time.
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I think our product set is stronger than at the peak of the dot-com bubble.
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I would like to think that we can peak in the same way as the rugby team did, David Beckham
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When you're playing every snap, the problem is you can't give 110 percent on every play.
percent
We still get 100 percent of what we were owed.
percent
We're down 4 to 6 percent in the Gulf.
percent problem rain
We're down 30-40 percent from normal. But the rain has been a problem for everybody.
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There is a very small percentage of dealers we're worried about. But they can do a lot of damage.
percent survey survived
Two years ago we did an on-site survey of 1,700 homes. We had 25 percent that could have survived a wildfire. Now we're at 50 percent.
percent portion sold
We are 90 percent sold for 2001, and a substantial portion is sold for 2002. Tom Williams
percent tools
We have tools out there which are 100 percent available.
percent within
We're within 2 percent of the 65 percent now.