"If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank, you wouldn't call it a 'failure of swimming.' So, when markets have been weighted down by inept and excessive regulation, why call this a 'failure of capitalism'?"

-- Peter Boettke

#Swimming Quotes #Gold Quotes #Legs Quotes

“What can the dove of Jesus give You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live, The dove has brought an olive branch to eat.”
“I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!”
“Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.”
“One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.”
“I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue.”

Source : Muhammad Yunus' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2006.
“The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.”
“John Kerry was the big winner in Iowa. Ted Kennedy introduced Kerry as the 'comeback kid.' That used to be Bill Clinton's name - because every time he would come back to a city, he would find out if he had a kid or not.”
“If I didn't have a recruiting engagement, I was going to be here. I did everything possible to change the recruiting thing. I'm a very small part of this night, but I did want to be a part of it.”

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