"Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history."

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Charles P. Kindleberger

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“They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew.”
“To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day.”
“I'm not very good at explaining things," she said. "But I think you have beautiful eyes. I love the gold in them. I love that they're different from my eyes- I see mine all the time and I'm bored with them.”
“Success in solving the problem depends on choosing the right aspect, on attacking the fortress from its accessible side.”

Source : George Pólya (1957). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”
“serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning.”
“Killing Jesus was like trying to destroy a dandelion seed-head by blowing on it”
“Little children are all writers.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man.”

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