"I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation."

-- Muhammad Yunus

#Country Quotes #Teaching Quotes #People Quotes

“Perseverance may be just as important as speed in the battle for the future.”
“Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.”

Source : www.jenniferweiner.com. May, 2002.
“He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison.”

Source : Catherine Fisher (2010). “Sapphique”, p.36, Penguin
“Many people, improperly, lump together libertarians and the Tea Parties. That's really wrong. Many of the libertarians are physicists, and many of the Tea Party people don't bathe. There's really not much in common there!”
“I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.”
“Unless an investor has access to “incredibly high-qualified professionals,” they “should be 100 percent passive - that includes almost all individual investors and most institutional investors.”

Source : "Yale Gets Educated In Retirement Plans" by Dan Solin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2016.
“In my view there is a level of human knowledge that involves just getting it right aptly. This "animal" epistemic level is an inferior level in just the way of Diana's long shot in the dark while drunk. That shot is inferior in a certain respect if too poorly selected as a hunter's archery shot, even if not quite as poorly selected as would be a shot aimed at the moon. Even if Diana's too risky shot turns out to be apt by attaining success through sublime archery dexterity, it is still inferior in the particular respect of being so risky and hence so poorly selected.”
“Show me the story. I just want to tell a story that pulls me forward.”

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