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Accounting Standards Board - The Accounting Standards Board (ASB) makes, amends and withdraws accounting standards.

Banking Code Standards Board - Ensures that banks and building societies comply with the Banking Codes, and also interprets and develops the Codes.

It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Regulation Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst Regulation I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley Regulation Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. - Cicero "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Regulation I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard Regulation We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon Regulation Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. -- George Santayana Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... -- Anonymous As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton Regulation Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -- D.H. Lawrence You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot. -- Elayne Boosler "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Regulation The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage -- Martin Luther Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -- Gloria Steinem Regulation Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Regulation "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. -- W. Somerset Maugham There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. -- Peter Regulation Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Regulation A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton Regulation The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Regulation If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be cr Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde Regulation I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Regulation Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna Regulation "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack Regulation Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg Regulation There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr Regulation Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Regulation A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. -- Lana Turner The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso Regulation
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