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Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.


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RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH We all recall what is or was important to us and are astonished when it slips other people's min...
RICHARD CORLISS A home movie of a fictional home life, an epic assembled from vignettes, 'Boyhood' shimmers ...
RICHARD CORLISS Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a conti...
RICHARD MITCHELL Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone s...
RICHARD MITCHELL Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as ...
RICHARD MITCHELL Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continui...
RICHARD MCKENNA Above us was a canopy, the stretching arms of cedar and spruce and Douglas fir. We knew to follow in...
RICHARD PAYMENT The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibil...
RICHARD ROHR No question that 'Birdman' is a breathtaking technical achievement, not a stunt. Shot in 30 ...
RICHARD CORLISS I’ll affect you slowly
as if you were having a picnic in a dream.
There will be no ants...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the diff...
RICHARD WHATELY Listen, buddy, if I could tell you in a minute what I did, it wouldn't be worth the Nobel Prize.
RICHARD FEYNMAN Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each sid...
RICHARD ENGEL How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyo...
RICHARD DAWKINS The visual team of 'Blade Runner' - one of the last big fantasy movies to be made without mu...
RICHARD CORLISS In 'Blade Runner,' the here is quite enough: a vision of dark, cramped, urban squalor. This ...
RICHARD CORLISS 'Blade Runner' was one of several dystopian science-fiction films to tank in the early and m...
RICHARD CORLISS Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time.
RICHARD CARLSON I believe it has been said that one copy of the "Times" contains more useful information than the w...
RICHARD COBDEN Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.
RICHARD BRANSON I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live n...
RICHARD FEYNMAN I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when a...
RICHARD LAMM