"Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo 's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at " capitalism " because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word ."

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Source : Comment as Eliezer Yudkowsky @yudkowsky, www.facebook.com. June 10, 2012.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Law Quotes #People Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“Peace is achieved with rice and salt, not with katanas and arrows”
“I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.”
“Writing fiction lets you be a little more emotional and unguarded, a little freer. Writing fictional characters is also really different from writing about real people. In nonfiction, you can only say so much about the people you interact with. After all, they're actual people, their version of their story trumps yours. In a novel, you can build a character, using certain parts or impressions of someone you know, and guessing or inventing others, without having to worry that your guesses or memories or inventions are wrong.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.”
“Happiness is not in the having or being- it is in the doing.”
“Thanks to you, Gabs, we just figured out a half dozen ways not to rob the Henley.”
“How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen.”
“Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you”

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