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“Unless we understand what it is that leads to economic and financial instability, we cannot prescribe -- make policy -- to modify or eliminate it. Identifying a phenomenon is not enough; we need a theory that makes instability a normal result in our economy and gives us handles to control it.”
Source : Hyman Minsky (2008). “Stabilizing an Unstable Economy, Part 3 - Economic Theory”, p.111, McGraw Hill Professional
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“I expressed just now my mistrust of what is called Spiritualism — ... I owe it a trifle for a message said to come from Voltaire's Ghost. It was asked, Are you not now convinced of another world? and rapped out, There is no other world — Death is only an incident in Life.”
Source : "Joseph Vance". Book by William De Morgan, Chapter XI, 1906.
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“All time is wasted that is not spent in seeking God”
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“A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.”
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“If I’d stopped believing that my life would eventually get better, I don’t think I would have survived high school.”
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“Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth. You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.”
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“The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the first form of the church on earth.”
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“Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work. What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.”
Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
