"It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail."

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Source : John Lewis Gaddis (2006). “The Cold War: A New History”, p.10, Penguin

John Lewis Gaddis

#Vision Quotes #Starting Quotes #Hopes And Fears Quotes

“Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.”
“The reality of Canadian history is that we've been willing to do the important things the world demanded of us: fighting in World War II, in Korea, in the Balkans, where we were involved in offensive military operations, and in Afghanistan, where we have made disproportionate contributions.”
“You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.”
“If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.”

Source : "Warner Music Group CEO: Steve Jobs Got the Best of Us" by Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 31, 2012.
“If I got involved with the chat rooms and Facebook and everything - I would probably never leave. That's why I don't do it. I literally don't do it. At all.”
“Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.”
“And Wigan Athletic are certain to be promoted barring a mathmatical tragedy”
“If commodity prices are no longer going up then food prices in the grocery store will no longer go up, at some point.”

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