"The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present"

-- Paul Saffo

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“Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let's make sure we understand what government spending is. Since government has no resources of its own, and since there's no Tooth Fairy handing Congress the funds for the programs it enacts, we are forced to recognize that government spending is no less than the confiscation of one person's property to give it to another to whom it does not belong - in effect, legalized theft.”
“The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.”
“This is hard... Never said it would be easy. Nothing good ever is.' -- Josie & Ash”
“Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.”
“One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.”

Source : Harold Wilson (1971). “A personal record: the Labour Government, 1964-1970”
“If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room; you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything. I've written lots of material, but how do you memorise 90 minutes? That's one hell of a long speech. I've always had problems with that.”
“Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.”
“People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.”

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