"Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in real time."

-- Sendhil Mullainathan

#Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes #World Quotes

“If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.”
“According to government auditors, the stimulus money is being held up because there aren't enough government workers to oversee the spending. So follow me, in other words, government workers who aren't there are needed to spend money we don't have to create jobs that don't exist.”
“Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.”
“Hope! thou nurse of young desire.”

Source : Isaac Bickerstaffe (1791). “Love in a village: a comic opera”, p.1
“Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.”
“How powerful prayer is! May we never lose the courage to say: Lord, give us your peace.”
“I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion are very different from ours, who live in sierras and mountains, without fixed settlements, and where by divine will I have placed under the sovereignty of the King and Queen our Lords, an Other World, whereby Spain, which was reckoned poor, is become the richest of countries. Columbus is coming from the Indies as a prisoner to Cadiz.”

Source : Letter to Dona Juana de Torres, Oct. 1500
“Good wine is a necessity of life for me.”

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