"My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics."

-- James Meade

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“When life is hard and the day has been long, the ideal dinner is not four perfect courses, each in a lovely pool of sauce whose ambrosial flavors are like nothing ever before tasted, but rather something comforting and savory, easy on the digestion - something that makes one feel, if even for only a minute, that one is safe.”
“The world becomes a wider place, with but a little learning.”

Source : Susanna Kearsley (2014). “The Firebird”, p.190, Simon and Schuster
“The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.”

Source : "Gustavo Dudamel: 'I'm not the messiah" by Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2010.
“Some people find fault like there is a reward for it”
“It's an individual sport (golf), so it's the exact opposite of baseball. If you hit a bad shot, you can't say, 'Well, this happened.' It's just you. It's your shot. You can't point the finger at anybody but yourself.”
“The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.”

Source : Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.342, Macmillan
“The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.”
“I am the neurological opposite of a psychopath, in that I feel anxious almost all the time. It must be great to not constantly feel like youâ€™ve got someone living inside your face, shooting you with a mini Taser.”

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