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• Herbert Asquith's clarity is a great liability because he has nothing to say.

  Arthur Balfour

  Clarity

  Quoted by George Will in News week, 9 Sep1991.

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• The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

  Howard Aiken

  Errors, Effort, Desire

  "Proposed Automatic Calculating Machine". Paper by Howard H. Aiken, dl.acm.org. 1937.

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• The left's obsession with corporations as a spawn of evil is pathological paranoia. A corporation is just one form of organizing a private business enterprise for purposes of limiting personal liability, issuing stock, filing financial reports and paying taxes. Other forms include partnerships and sole proprietorships. Are they less evil? You buy your groceries from corporations, your cars, newspapers, cellphones, clothing and exercise equipment. Your parents and children work for corporations. Are they evil?

  Mike Rosen

  Children, Exercise, Evil

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• The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Engineering, Gmos, Issues

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• Every liability is just an asset in hiding.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Hiding, Assets

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• I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Mean, Light, Darkness

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.70, John Wiley & Sons

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• Are we bereft of citizenship because we are mothers, wives and daughters of a mighty people? Have women no country--no interests staked in public weal--no liabilities in common peril--no partnership in a nation's guilt and shame?

  Angelina Grimke

  Daughter, Mother, Country

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.197, Penguin

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• Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your
  greatest asset or your greatest liability

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Worst Enemy, Your Best Friend

  John C. Maxwell (2001). “The Power of Thinking Big”, p.9, David C Cook

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• It would be a very odd chancellor of any UK government that insisted on a course of action that cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds, that blew a massive hole in their balance of payments and, because assets and liabilities go hand in hand, would potentially leave the rest of the UK shouldering the entirety of UK debt.

  Nicola Sturgeon

  Government, Hands, Balance

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• There is the liability of accepting prematurely an artificial horizon for our own character and personality, of losing the horizon of the possible person we might be. It is the danger of considering our character as something static, rather than as something emerging.

  Halford Luccock

  Character, Personality, Horizon

  "Marching Off the Map: And Other Sermons". Book by Halford Edward Luccock, p. 83, 1952.

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• President Bush released his tax returns yesterday. He listed the economy as a liability. He gets to write that off.

  Jay Leno

  Writing, Yesterday, President

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• It’s hard to think of another field in which experience is considered a liability and those who know the least about the nuts and bolts of an enterprise are embraced as experts.

  Pedro Noguera

  Thinking, Nuts, Experts

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• If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense?

  Henry James

  Ambition, Artist, Essence

  Henry James (1984). “Literary Criticism: French writers. Other European writers. The prefaces to the New York edition”, p.414, Library of America

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• And all the women are feminine, so we never get to see masculine presenting women and we never get to frame that as beautiful, which it is, and that's incredibly frustrating, so for every gain or benefit that the internet offers there is a liability.

  Roxane Gay

  Beautiful, Internet, Feminine

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The country has large unfunded liabilities - social security, health care, and there will have to be some adjustments to these problems. What is scary though is how much worse things have gotten in the last eight years, and the Iraq war is one of the main factors.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Country, War, Scary

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If conduct is intentional, it could subject some of the criminal liability.

  James Comey

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If Putin likes Donald Trump, I consider that an asset, not a liability, because we have a horrible relationship with Russia.

  Donald Trump

  Russia, Likes, Putin

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Though it's hard to be completely certain about things like this, I have a suspicion that only someone with deep freedom (one who makes decisions for reasons that are his own) and who's also a moral being (can experience goodness) can have a meaningful friendship with God. If friendship with God and sharing in His happiness are good things (and it seems they are), then making a creature who could enjoy these things is also a good thing, even if it comes with a liability. There's a risk.

  Greg Koukl

  Meaningful, Decision, Risk

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The worst loophole is what Donald Trump has talked about: the tax deductibility of interest. If you let real estate owners or corporate raiders borrow the money to buy a property or company, and then pay interest to the bondholders, you'll load the company you take over with debt. But you don't have to pay taxes on the profits that you pay out in this way. You can deduct the interest from your tax liability.

  Michael Hudson

  Real, Pay, Way

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'm always working on something. Addiction never gets any credit, always talked about as a total liability, and I'll admit that most of its traits aren't positive in our lives. But there's one amazing thing it gave me: a tireless work ethic.

  Joshua Mohr

  Addiction, Work Ethic, Credit

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Being Jewish myself, I somehow didn't see the problem: who cares what a mentally ill (but strangely likable) individual says? If he didn't make some money at chess, I could see him becoming a street person, shaking his fists at cars as they passed by his corner of the block. Isn't it preferable to have him in a self-sufficient position rather than as a liability of the state?

  Jeremy Silman

  Block, Self, Car

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• Beware leverage in all its forms. Borrowers - individual, corporate, or government - should always match fund their liabilities against the duration of their assets. Borrowers must always remember that capital markets can be extremely fickle, and that it is never safe to assume a maturing loan can be rolled over. Even if you are unleveraged, the leverage employed by others can drive dramatic price and valuation swings; sudden unavailability of leverage in the economy may trigger an economic downturn.

  Seth Klarman

  Government, Swings, Fickle

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• A global financial cabal engineered a fraudulent housing and debt bubble [2008], illegally shifted vast amounts of capital out of the US; and used 'privatization' as a form of piracy - a pretext to move government assets to private investors at below-market prices and then shift private liabilities back to government at no cost to the private liability holder Clearly, there was a global financial coup d'etat underway.

  Catherine Austin Fitts

  Moving, Government, Debt

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• As a global community, we must ensure that legitimate concerns about liability do not hold back the possibility of developing an Ebola vaccine, an essential strategy in our global response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Epidemics, Ebola, Vaccines

  "US agency offers legal immunity to Ebola vaccine makers". www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2014.

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• When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Enemy, Tactics

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