"Economics is concerned with what emerges, not what anyone intended."

-- Thomas Sowell

#Economics Quotes #Concerned Quotes

“I have the humor of a 9-year-old boy, and sometimes I've had laughing fits on-air.”
“We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.”

Source : Jesse Torrey (1819). “The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue and Happiness: Being a Compendium of Moral Science, in Four Parts ... : with an Appendix Containing Directions for the Institution of Free Public Libraries, and Reading Societies : Designed for the Use of Families, and the Highest Classes in Common Schools and Academies”, p.186
“The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself.”

Source : Lisa Alther (2010). “Other Women”, p.255, Open Road Media
“The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a temporary phase that people pass through, indeed, an infinitesimal fraction of their existenceâ€¦the gradual replacement of lives for souls as the locus of moral value was helped along by the ascendency of skepticism and reason”
“Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering.”
“Optimism is America's birthright.... There is no social problem Americans dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage, and marriage alone, we despair.”
“[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.”

Source : Bronislaw Malinowski (2001). “Man and Culture: An Evaluation of the Work of Bronislaw Malinowski”, p.6, Psychology Press
“When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and you're life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence itâ€¦ Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.”

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