"For economist the real world is often a special case."

-- Edgar Fiedler

#Real Quotes #Special Quotes #World Quotes

“Coal research and development provides huge benefits for the nation, and pay for itself many times over through taxes flowing back to the Treasury from expanded economic activity.”
“I know many Europeans and I think many of them don't even believe me when I say that people in US don't have vacations. Obviously a lot of people do but there are many, tens of millions of people that don't and there's certainly no guarantee of a vacation. So paid time off is very valuable where people know they could get four or five weeks vacation, which is absolutely standard in Europe. Denmark has 6 weeks. So I think that's something that's very valuable, giving people time off.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it on the leather like I would a shoe wax. Then I spit-shine it and buff it with a cloth, and my shoes look great.”
“I'm cancer-free. And I'm on antioxidants and acupuncture and a different diet. And I have a different outlook on life. I don't have resentment any more. It's wonderful.”
“I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.”
“Network marketing is the fastest growing business model in the world today.”
“I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don't know why. I just get embarrassed.”
“The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean.”

Source : Timothy Morton (2012). “The Ecological Thought”, p.139, Harvard University Press

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