"Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy - let's imagine we have two farms, and that's the whole world, just two farms. If one of those farmers gets unemployment benefits, who do you think pays for him? Am I going way over your heads today?"

-- Arthur Laffer

#Thinking Quotes #Two Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The ladies kept telling me I wasn't good in bed, so I figured if I wasn't a lover then I must be a fighter”
“Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it.”

Source : "Of Pandas and Peas: Saving the Diversity Within Species" by Cary Fowler, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2010.
“I'm so tired I never want to wake up again. But I've figured out now that it was never them that made me feel that way. It was just me, all along.”
“Kat bought a New York Times but couldnâ€™t figure out how to operate it, so now sheâ€™s fiddling with her phone.”

Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.”
“When youâ€™re confronted by a really difficult thing in your life, youâ€™re faced with a choice: you can runaway from it, or you can face it, confront it, and work through it. But to work through it, sometimes feels like holding your own head below water when youâ€™re already drowning. Your natural instinct when drowning is to get back up to the surface and give yourself some relief from that terrible situationâ€¦you just want to breathe again.”
“The game-playing market today is pretty sizable.”
“I was always fraught with guilt, and it's such a waste of an emotion. It keeps you out of the moment of being where you are.”

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