"If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain."

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Source : William Spencer Vickrey (2004). “Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey”, Edward Elgar Pub

William Vickrey

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“Is it the duty of every good revolutionary to kill every newborn White baby?”
“Prayers never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but to the enlightened it is the same as asking Santa Claus to bring you something for Xmas”
“A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.”
“When your family is with you, it is not the hardest part. The hardest part is not giving up! Sometimes you stop and see everything and you do not know if everything that you are doing is going to pay off. If you work hard, it is going to pay off. But, you will not know until it actually pays off! It is easy to say: "I am not doing this anymore. It's not working!" But, there is a time that you invested so long and so much, that giving up is not an option! You need to keep on going and believe that persistence definitely pays off.”

Source : Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. August 1, 2015.
“In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you can come to a lot of meanings within a short space.”
“I don't know what the big issue is about a kiss with Neve Campbell in Wild Things. It's a role, and I think a bigger issue is made out of it. It was a part I took and it's what the character did, so I did it.”
“Love is a state of union. When you can receive love, you can know union.”

Source : Sandra Ingerman (2010). “Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins”, p.95, Harmony
“I was so nervous before going out there”

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