"The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion."

-- Joseph Stiglitz

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“Being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realm, I do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican parties, and also do hereby decree the disfranchisement and imprisonment, for not more than 10, nor less than five, years, to all persons leading to any violation of this our imperial decree.”

Source : Ralph Nader (2000). “The Ralph Nader Reader”, p.11, Seven Stories Press
“Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.”
“Goldie Hawn is funny, sexy, beautiful, talented, intelligent, warm, and consistently sunny. Other than that, she doesn't impress me at all.”
“When we talk of architecture, people usually think of something static; this is wrong. What we are thinking of is an architecture similar to the dynamic and musical architecture achieved by the Futurist musician Pratella. Architecture is found in the movement of colours, of smoke from a chimney and in metallic structures, when they are expressed in states of mind which are violent and chaotic.”

Source : "The Painting of Sounds, Noises and Smells" by Carlo Carra (1913), as translated in: Mary Ann Caws "Manifesto: A Century of Isms," p. 203, 2001.
“What barrier is so insurmountable as silence?”
“Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."”

Source : Letter to William H. Seward, 3 Mar. 1861
“Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.”
“Realize that you earn income by providing value - not time - so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it.”

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