"It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future."

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Source : Robert L. Heilbroner (1955). “The Great Economists: Their Lives and Their Conceptions of the World”

Robert Heilbroner

#Past Quotes #Faces Quotes #Scope Quotes

“Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of the rockets merges now with the creak of the wind-taut rigging. For somewhere in the world today, still unconscious of his destiny, walks the boy who will be the first Odysseus of the Age of Space.”
“I could not possibly overstate the need for an urgent response.”

Source : CDC Telebriefing in West Africa, www.cdc.gov. September 2, 2014.
“In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist.”

Source : Richard M. Weaver (1987). “The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver”, Liberty Fund
“Death for the Christian is to fall asleep in the arms of Jesus and waking up and finding out that you're home.”
“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.”
“...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that Iâ€™m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.”

Source : "The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance". Interview with Gareth Cook, www.scientificamerican.com. January 24, 2012.
“If I can see it and believe it, then I can achieve it.”
“He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey was already wet.”

Source : Joseph Mitchell (2012). “Up in the Old Hotel”, p.411, Random House

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