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If cooler heads prevail and Greece avoids a messy exit, Greek stocks are a bargain, but this is also one of those trades where you could lose half your money in a hurry if political events slide out of control. – Charles Sizemore	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The market was very worried about slowing growth anyway so last night's big downward revision to global growth by the World Bank has probably stoked that fear, combined with that, there's general risk reduction across all risky assets and the slide in oil prices is having a follow-through effect on metals. – Gayle Berry	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The strange drop in oil prices in such a short time is a political ploy and unrelated to the market. Our common enemies are using oil as a political ploy and they definitely have a role in this severe fall in prices, (Khamenei) endorsed an agreement between the presidents of Iran and Venezuela for a coordinated campaign against the slide in oil prices. – Ali Khamenei	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
With the slide in energy, investors have become bearish towards Canada. Eventually that will straighten itself out, but it could take a while. – Colin Cieszynski	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think people are looking at the potential ripple effects from the slide in oil. You're seeing some of these ripple effects today. – Michael James	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: LEAVE SLIDE RULES HERE! If I didn't do that, I'd find some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, Boss you can't do that. – Charles F. Kettering	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem. – John Jay Chapman	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. – Alfred Korzybski	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding. – Ernest K. Gann, The Black Watch	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next. – Johann von Goethe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. – Alfred Korzybski	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve. – Sophia Loren	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything both ways save us from thinking. – Theodore Isaac Rubin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do neccesary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity. – Lois McMaster Bujold	added by anonymous 14 years ago
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with. – Lois McMaster Bujold	added by anonymous 14 years ago

If cooler heads prevail and Greece avoids a messy exit, Greek stocks are a bargain, but this is also one of those trades where you could lose half your money in a hurry if political events slide out of control.

– Charles Sizemore

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The market was very worried about slowing growth anyway so last night's big downward revision to global growth by the World Bank has probably stoked that fear, combined with that, there's general risk reduction across all risky assets and the slide in oil prices is having a follow-through effect on metals.

– Gayle Berry

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The strange drop in oil prices in such a short time is a political ploy and unrelated to the market. Our common enemies are using oil as a political ploy and they definitely have a role in this severe fall in prices, (Khamenei) endorsed an agreement between the presidents of Iran and Venezuela for a coordinated campaign against the slide in oil prices.

– Ali Khamenei

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

With the slide in energy, investors have become bearish towards Canada. Eventually that will straighten itself out, but it could take a while.

– Colin Cieszynski

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I think people are looking at the potential ripple effects from the slide in oil. You're seeing some of these ripple effects today.

– Michael James

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: LEAVE SLIDE RULES HERE! If I didn't do that, I'd find some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, Boss you can't do that.

– Charles F. Kettering

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

– John Jay Chapman

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

– Alfred Korzybski

added by anonymous
13 years ago

If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding.

– Ernest K. Gann, The Black Watch

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.

– Johann von Goethe