"One of the main effects (I will not say purposes) of orthodox traditional economics was ... a plan for explaining to the privileged class that their position was morally right and was necessary for the welfare of society."

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Source : Essays in the Theory of Employment "An Economist's Sermon" (1937)

Joan Robinson

#Class Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Welfare Quotes

“A fight is a fight. And life is a fight.”
“I haven't missed many games in my career, so it is tough, and it makes you appreciate and it makes you hungry and ready to get back out there and ready to go out there and compete -- especially in a time of the year like this.”
“Nature is a numbers game. We need all the support we can get as our immune systems and health are under assault from pollution, stress, contaminated food and age-related diseases as our lifespans increase.”

Source : "TEDMED: Can Mushrooms Help the Immune System Fight Cancer? Interview With Paul Stamets, Mycologist". Interview with Patricia Fitzgerald, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 02, 2011.
“It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.”
“Tears stung her eyes. She sank her knees next to the sleeping bench and gently raked strands of golden hair from him forehead. "Don't you die. don't you dare. I forbid it." As if Han Alister had ever listened to anything she said.”
“Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff.”
“Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.”

Source : Ann Beattie (2010). “Walks With Men: Fiction”, p.40, Simon and Schuster
“I have grown up loving Shakespeare.”

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