Martin Mayer quotes
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“This is the twilight of the banks. It would be a more cheerful spectacle if we could envision the dawn of the institutions that will replace them”
-- Martin MayerSource : Martin Mayer (1985). “The money bazaars: understanding the banking revolution around us”, Signet
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“Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank.”
-- Martin MayerSource : Martin Mayer (1985). “The money bazaars: understanding the banking revolution around us”, Signet
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“Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance.”
-- Martin MayerSource : Martin Mayer (1990). “The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry”, Scribner Book Company
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“Like sex drives, card tricks, and the weather, computers tend to be discussed in terms of results rather than processes, which makes them rather scary.”
-- Martin MayerSource : Martin Mayer (1968). “All You Know is Facts”
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“People can be committed to a mental institution only after judicial hearing, but people are committed to schools beyond the reach of Habeas Corpus.”
-- Martin MayerSource : Martin Mayer (1963). “Where, When, and why: Social Studies in American Schools”, New York : Harper & Row
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Source : What to Listen for in Music (1939) ch. 2
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