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In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes in the structure of portfolios from occurring. What they can do is keep the asset-equity ratio of banks within bounds by setting equity-absorption ratios for various types of assets. If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a better position to attenuate the disruptive expansionary tendencies of our economy.
Hyman Minsky

Authors on Ratios Quotes: Thomas Carlyle Thomas Malthus Earl Nightingale Gustave Courbet Robert Hass Benjamin Graham Marcus Tullius Cicero Paul Doughty Bartlett Howe Gelb Zoe Leonard William Blake Jim Rohn Henry Charles Carey Swami Vivekananda Charles Grodin Margaret Atwood Thomas de Quincey Pieter Zeeman Hyman Minsky Nat Friedman William Safire John Jay Chapman Henry Ward Beecher Raymond Rubicam Bruce Ames Lawrence Hargrave Edgar Allan Poe Garry Trudeau William Zinsser Jon Krakauer Janet Yellen Ian Curtis Arthur C. Clarke
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I like the groups on Factory, A Certain Ratio and Section 25. I
Ian Curtis

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The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on the ratio between the mass and the charge of the electron.
Pieter Zeeman

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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Samuel Butler

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The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
Alberto Moravia

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Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.
Thomas Malthus

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In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.
Henry Charles Carey

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If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio.
Harvey Mackay

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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.
Henry Ward Beecher

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I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects.
Arthur Ganson

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Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
Arthur C. Clarke

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The value of an ad is in inverse ratio to the number of times it has been used.
Raymond Rubicam

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The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it; and the difficulty in replacing us.
Earl Nightingale

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The results serve to disprove the tetranucleotide hypothesis. It is, however, noteworthy-whether this is more than accidental, cannot yet be said-that in all desoxypentose nucleic acids examined thus far the molar ratios of total purines to total pyrimidines, and also of adenine to thymine and of guanine to cytosine, were not far from 1.
Erwin Chargaff

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Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.
H. G. Wells

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Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.
Earl Nightingale

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If you do something often enough, a ratio will appear
Jim Rohn

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Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more will the senses creep into the field of religion, and spirituality will decrease in the same ratio.
Swami Vivekananda

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It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.
Benjamin Graham

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The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
Edgar Allan Poe

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Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat.,
Domina omnium et regina ratio.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.
John Jay Chapman

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Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting ye Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of ye distance from ye center.
Isaac Newton

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The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
Gustave Courbet

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Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.
Thomas Malthus

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A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
Margaret Atwood

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Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
William Blake

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How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course? [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]
Horace

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The obese are eating the worst diet in the country if you define worse as ratio of calories to essential micronutrients. They're just eating empty calories.
Bruce Ames

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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
Nat Friedman

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It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.
Lawrence Hargrave

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I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.
Banana Yoshimoto

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A Financial Research Corporation study determined that the expense ratio is the only reliable predictor of future mutual fund performance.
Michael LeBoeuf

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That's the really frustrating thing, but also the fixable thing. My theory why no one notices is that that's the [women's roles] ratio thing they grew up with. It's just been that way forever, so they don't see it.
Geena Davis

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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
Tacitus

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I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.
Garry Trudeau

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Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.
Robert Hass

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In the very beginning I tried to actualise way too many ideas. The end result was not as healthy a ratio for satisfaction as the current, more mysterious one.
Howe Gelb

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A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
Thomas de Quincey

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Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.
William Zinsser

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Photographers talk about their shoot ratio. Like four to one, six to one, ten to one! Whatever, I'm, like, seven billion to one. It is just ridiculous. But sometimes if you can hit it just right and get everything out of the way, something will resonate on multiple levels.
Zoe Leonard

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Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system.
Ben Bernanke

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...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.
Jon Krakauer

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One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends for stocks.
Janet Yellen

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We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.
Rob Sheffield

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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
Thomas Carlyle

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Among nonclassical ions the ratio of conceptual difficulty to molecular weight reaches a maximum with the cyclopropylcarbinyl-cyclobutyl system.
Paul Doughty Bartlett

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I audition for stuff all the time, and what's weird about it is that one's success rate at auditioning doesn't really change. It's sort of at the same ratio of stuff you audition for to things you land.
Jared Harris

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The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.
Spencer Abraham

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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
George William Curtis