"I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour"

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Source : Gary Stanley Becker, Ramón Febrero, Pedro Schwartz (1995). “The essence of Becker”, Hoover Inst Pr

Gary Becker

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“Love is the whole and more than all.”
“These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule.”

Source : Interview in "The Los Angeles Examiner", August 1, 1926.
“I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.”
“I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?”
“But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.”
“Pick up a camera and start shooting. You need to wade in in order to figure out how to move forward and do something concrete. I firmly believe that a lot dynamic and revolutionary work flows from those who summon all of their personal energy and just go out and make something.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it”
“The East was no longer a threat to the western world, and when there's nothing to fear we turn our backs, we look elsewhere. Eastern literature is still the poor relative that everyone wants to forget, the Cinderella who hasn't (yet) found her prince.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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