Inadvertently funny things said backstage get written on a quote board tacked to a wall in their dressing room.

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Literally, a quote written on the wall outside University College London.

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The FSA and CFTC quote from emails written by Barclays' traders to their counterparts at these other banks who were requesting this help in rigging markets.

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But Dunant's dream, to quote the title of Caroline Moorhead's finely written, thoughtful and well researched history, was a limited one.

ECONOMIST: Humanitarianism

That quote from the Windows president is also in an email he has written to Microsoft staff in which he says he is leaving to pursue new opportunities.

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