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Quote by Bertolt Brecht
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. – Bertolt Brecht

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Most people…find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets. – Howard Davies

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I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. – Thomas Jefferson

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There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries. – Edith Wharton

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Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water. – Jaffar Hussein

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