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    Beware leverage in all its forms. Borrowers - individual, corporate, or government - should always match fund their liabilities against the duration of their assets. Borrowers must always remember that capital markets can be extremely fickle, and that it is never safe to assume a maturing loan can be rolled over. Even if you are unleveraged, the leverage employed by others can drive dramatic price and valuation swings; sudden unavailability of leverage in the economy may trigger an economic downturn.

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    Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

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    Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

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    Dogs are more loyal. Cats are fickle.

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    Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

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    Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

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    Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.

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    Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

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    Fame is fickle, but Obscurity is usually faithful to the end.

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    Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

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    Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

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    For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it is easy to persuade them of a thing, it is hard to fix them in that persuasion

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    Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.

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    High school popularity is so fickle.

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    I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine.

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    How fragile life was, how fleeting their days on earth, and how fickle was Death, claiming the young as often as the old, the healthy as often as the ailing, cruelly stealing away a baby's first breath, a mother's fading heartbeat.

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    I came to feel how far above All fancy, pride, and fickle maidenhood, All earthly pleasure, all imagined good, Was the warm tremble of a devout kiss.

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    I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow.

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    I haven't studied it deeply, but the American banks started the crisis with far more capital and what I would call "good liquidity." The riskiest funding is unsecured wholesale funding. It's the most fickle. Not repo, which the government focused on, too. Unsecured. JPMorgan Chase had almost none of that - virtually zero.

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    If you lived with a roommate as unstable as this economic system, you would’ve moved out or demanded that your roommate get professional help.

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    Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.

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    I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.

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    I see now that true love isn’t fickle; it's what we put into it. If we work hard at loving someone, then no one can corrupt the love we have.

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    It's a fickle town, a tough town. They getcha, boy. They don't let you escape with minor scratches and bruises. They put scars on you here.

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    I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.

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    Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

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    In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what it wants or how it is to get what it thinks it likes.

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    Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

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    My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.

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    Money can be fickle, having a lasting relationship with a few and a brief fling with others, while just flirting with the rest of us.

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    Obey the muse, Liz said. She's a fickle mistress.

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    Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

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    Nothing is so fickle and uncertain as popularity. It is here today and gone tomorrow. It is a sandy foundation, and sure to fail those who build upon it.

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    O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.

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    Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods -moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former -but no opinion.

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    Passion is too important to be without, but too fickle to be guided by. Which is why I’m more inclined to say, 'Don’t Follow Your Passion, But Always Bring it With You.'

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    O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable

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    Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according to your mysterious and unknowable workings of the universe.

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    Praise none too much, for all are fickle.

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    The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.

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    such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

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    Television is one of the most fickle businesses that there are, you are in favour one minute and out the next.

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    The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.

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    The most fundamental seems fickle.

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    Selfishness of the stable or rigid sort is as a rule more bitterly resented than the more fickle variety, chiefly, no doubt, because, having more continuity and purpose, it is more formidable.

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    Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

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    The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.

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    The film industry is so fickle about financing, and it's so difficult to get movies made.

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    The live audience is a blind date. The camera is a hungry lover. One wants to be wined and dined and seduced and then decide where the evening will go. The other knows how it wants to be touched, wants it now and can damn well tell if you are lying about it. Both are fickle. Both feel good. Depends on your mood.

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    We live in a country where power changes hands cyclically, because everybody in power screws up at some point, or the voters get fickle and just want a change.