"Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work."

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Source : Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2006). “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything”, p.18, Penguin UK

Steven Levitt

#People Quotes #World Quotes #Way Quotes

“The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.”
“I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it.”
“One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world.”

Source : Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart
“If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the authorship of it doesn't exist anymore.”

Source : Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.
“If I had the power, I would ban leggings.”

Source : "Jil Sander: 'If I had the power I would ban leggings'" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 06, 2011.
“We, all of us, are being called to do something unprecedented. We are being called to think about "everything that is," for we now know that everything is interrelated and that the well-being of each is connected to the well-being of the whole. This suggests a "planetary agenda" for all the religions, all the various fields of expertise.”
“There is no one subsists by himself alone.”
“Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you've created until it's out there.”

Source : "1.0 Is the Loneliest Number" by Matt Mullenweg, ma.tt. November 9, 2010.

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