"The job of the Central Bank is to worry."

-- Alice Rivlin

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“My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.”
“Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.”
“I think that what you’ve got to do is discover the essential truth of the situation, and have a point of view about it.”
“I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.”
“Dad took moving pictures of us children washing dishes, so that he could figure out how we could reduce our motions and thus hurry through the task. Irregular jobs, such as painting the back porch or removing a stump from the front lawn, were awarded on a low-bid basis. Each child who wanted extra pocket money submitted a sealed bid saying what he would do the job for. The lowest bidder got the contract.”

Source : FRANK B. GILBRETH JR. (1948). “CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN”
“When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living.”
“Elect me as your congressman today, I promise you an Ilocano president in 20 years.”

Source : Election speech as candidate for Congress, 1949.
“I have a deep love for the art of translation, and I couldn't find a novel that captured the fascinating, reckless adventure of it as I'd experienced it, or portrayed translators as the passionate risk-takers that so many of the translators I know are. So I wrote the book I couldn't find.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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