"Existing economics is a theoretical system which floats in the air and which bears little relation to what happens in the real world."

-- Ronald Coase

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“I actually felt calmer and more serene when we got up to the tower that I think I ever have. We had literally done everything we could to prepare.”
“What is cheaper than lust or of less value than alchemy or aphrodisiacs?”

Source : Avram Davidson (2011). “The Avram Davidson Treasury: A Tribute Collection”, p.560, Macmillan
“The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.”
“I am having a very difficult time. Things happen unexpectedly.”

Source : "The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire". Book by John Toland, p.49, 2003.
“The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.”

Source : Joseph Wood Krutch (1995). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”
“...an incorrect theory, even if it cannot be inhibited by any contradiction that would refute it, is none the less incorrect, just as a criminal policy is none the less criminal even if it cannot be inhibited by any court that would curb it.”
“I get just as excited about building a birdhouse as when providing strategic counsel to a client.”

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