"Most of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to "save" our way to capital ownership."

-- Louis O. Kelso

#Needs Quotes #Politics Quotes #Able Quotes

“Shale gas, if left to flourish, could create several hundred thousand more jobs.”
“I am walking today because of chiropractic care I received years ago. I predict a great future for the science of chiropractic.”
“Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal.”
“You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya?”
“I think technology really increased human ability, but technology cannot produce compassion.”
“Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.”

Source : Will Ferguson (2002). “Happiness”
“nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging.”

Source : John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman
“Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.”

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