"The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs."

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Source : Nassau William Senior (1849). “Political economy”, p.3

Nassau William Senior

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“Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.
“The charm of a woodland road lies not only in its beauty but in anticipation. Around each bend may be a discovery, an adventure.”
“The writer doesnâ€™t write for the reader. He doesnâ€™t write for himself, either. He writes to serveâ€¦something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness â€” those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings.”
“Biblically speaking, to hear and not to do is not to hear at all.”
“Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.”
“What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.”
“Eaten bread is forgotten.”
“The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to articulate discontent so it is sometimes held not to exist. This mistaken belief arises because we can only grasp silence in the moment in which it is breaking.”

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