"Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions."

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Source : "Whistling Past the Economic Graveyard: The Audacity of Misplaced Hope" by Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2009.

James Grant

#Misplaced Quotes #Recessions Quotes

“From that moment onwards, our loathsome society rushed, like Narcissus, to contemplate its trivial image on a metallic plate. A form of lunacy, an extraordinary fanaticism took hold of these new sun-worshippers.”
“You try to come up with new ideas, but in the end, people just want to eat Italian food.”
“Beautyâ€”real everlasting beautyâ€”lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do for ourselves and for others.”
“I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms.”
“The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now as before. Every conversation between friends or lovers creates its own easy or awkward rhythms, hidden talk that runs like a subterranean river under even the most banal exchange.”
“Abuse of power comes as no surprise”

Source : Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”
“It's not always what you say that matters, sometimes it's what you don't say.”
“Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.”

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