"European lotteries are the tax on fools."

-- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

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“Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo 's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at " capitalism " because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word .”

Source : Comment as Eliezer Yudkowsky @yudkowsky, www.facebook.com. June 10, 2012.
“Architects and urbanists are fascinated with cities that are shrinking, like the Rust Belt cities. Or, alternatively, we are fascinated with the growth of favelas and informal settlements. The 2008 financial crisis made these changes more extreme. The subtraction protocols rehearse a way of thinking about multiple properties in counterbalancing interdependence - not just the shaping of one property but the ratcheting interplay between properties.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Hook up with us and see a quick return on your premiums.' I like it, Sammy. Think we can fit it on a bumper sticker? (Dean)”
“Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.”

Source : "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead". Book by Nell Scovell and Sheryl Sandberg, March 11, 2013.
“I feel like I owe it to the readers to try to pull back the veil and give them the honest version of what's going on. But it's not more fun. If Obama, as he does sometimes already, gets a little snippy with me about something I've written, you're thinking, 'Oh God, the president of the United States is already annoyed with me.'”
“Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.”

Source : Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books
“When you've been used to doing things, and they've been taken away from you, it's as if your hands had been cut off, and you felt the fingers as are of no use to you.”
“It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.”

Source : Pamela Ribon (2003). “Why Girls Are Weird: A Novel”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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