"Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective."

-- Ben Bernanke

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“For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.”
“If God allows us to remain Methodist, Baptist, or Episcopalian, it may be on account of the unconverted, that they may be without excuse; that every type of man may be confronted with a corresponding type of doctrine and of method. Surely there are means adapted to your state, and ministries fitted to your peculiar temperament.”
“The model of competitive equilibrium which has been discussed so far is set in a timeless environment. People and companies all operate in a world in which there is no future and hence no uncertainty.”

Source : "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.
“The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.”

Source : "Camelot" (song) (1960)
“If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.”

Source : "The System of Nature". Book by Baron d'Holbach, 1770.
“I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination”
“Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.”
“I have become an orchid washed in on the salt white beach. Memory, what can I make of it now that might please you- this life, already wasted and still strewn with miracles?”

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