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...In Stanley Spencer’s case, there was a turning point in his career after he read St Augustine’s Confessions while serving as a medical orderly in the first world war....
...Clooney plays Augustine, who might be the last man on Earth, an ageing scientist with terminal cancer who is manning an observatory in the Arctic Circle....
...“It’s like the old St Augustine adage — give me chastity but not yet,” he adds. “Now they have plenty of chastity on the regulatory side, it’s time to start making more money.”...
...Bets on things like Merrill Lynch, RBS and Morgan Stanley, specifically, would have resulted in something like a 60 per cent decline in the contrarians’ bull portfolio....
...“But there is a danger in being seen always to pray, like Saint Augustine and Robbie Williams, ‘Oh Lord, make me pure, but not yet’....
...David Miles, Morgan Stanley The main risk we see is from household saving behaviour....
...’s chief executive, and Seng Heng Bank, owned by Stanley Ho, the gambling tycoon....
...In the Middle Ages Saint Augustine wrote of the incubi who ”often made wicked assaults upon women and satisfied their lust upon them” while they slept....
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