"A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip."

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Source : Merrill Markoe (2011). “What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned”, p.200, Villard

Merrill Markoe

#Sunset Quotes #Way Quotes #Hips Quotes

“Unless we understand what it is that leads to economic and financial instability, we cannot prescribe -- make policy -- to modify or eliminate it. Identifying a phenomenon is not enough; we need a theory that makes instability a normal result in our economy and gives us handles to control it.”

Source : Hyman Minsky (2008). “Stabilizing an Unstable Economy, Part 3 - Economic Theory”, p.111, McGraw Hill Professional
“I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.”
“We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.”
“The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.”
“I have long been something of a climate-change sceptic, but my views in recent years have shifted. For me, the most convincing evidence that something worrying is going on lies right here in the Arctic.”
“Democracy only works, as President [Barack] Obama spoke of in his farewell message, if it's driven by the people and the people stay active and vigilant and speak out and let their concerns be known.”
“Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.”
“Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.”

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