"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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“There are a large number of people who can and do manage to lead decent upright lives with no use for a belief in God as a guide. Atheists do not care whether others believe as they do. They do ask, however, for the right to believe as they wish.”
“What's interesting is that I get messages from people who think I'm gone. I have messages like "Tony, we're so sorry. We loved you!"”

Source : "Q&A: Tony Danza on Don Jon, Fake Deaths, and Scarlett Johansson". Interview with Danielle Bacher, www.esquire.com. September 27, 2013.
“You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that's why it ranks up at the top, because before then, I didn't even think I was good enough to be a professional ballplayer.”
“I'm not here for a long time. I'm here for a short time”
“I don't want to die and leave a few sad songs and a hump in the ground as my only monument. I want to leave a world that is liberated from trash, pollution, racism, nation-states, nation-state wars and armies, from pomp, bigotry, parochialism, a thousand different brands of untruth and licentious, usurious economics.”

Source : George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press
“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”

Source : Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.12, Publishdrive
“The anointing of the Holy Spirit is given to illuminate His Word, to open the Scriptures, and to place the spiritual man in direct communication with the mind of God.”
“If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not a thing of masses and of spasmodic efforts, then a true idea would begin to tell upon the habits of our domestic life, for the thrift and thriving of the individual is the thrift and thriving of the nation.”

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