"When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about."

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Joan Robinson

#Ideas Quotes #October Quotes #Economics Quotes

“It is always and everywhere the province of the central bank to monetize any spending, the government's or the private sector's, by printing enough money to pay for it in depreciated dollars.”
“Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?”
“When you enter deeply into this moment, you see the nature of reality, and this insight liberates you from suffering and confusion. Peace is already there to some extent: the problem is whether we know how to touch it.”
“So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.”
“Sometimes all we need is only listening to an inner voice and remaining human in a very personal way. But even if it is a personal way, it's still a very valid way - maybe the most valid way. It doesn't have to be a collective experience or someone telling you what to do. The most sacred human experience can be a very personal one.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“My goal has not ever been to change minds, my goal is to open minds.”

Source : "TERRA 240 - Bioneers - Part 1". Interview with George Potter, lifeonterra.com. 2007.
“For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!”

Source : "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth" l. 15 (1855)
“I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head.”

Source : "Rapper Angel Haze on religion, rape and survival" by Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2013.

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