"Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future."

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Source : Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.445, Spectra

Gregory Benford

#Welfare Quotes #Economics Quotes #Modern Quotes

“I don't think we're ever going to be in a position where we can say this is the template, this is the checklist, that must be met [for intervention].”
“I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don't see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.”

Source : "Matt LeBlanc flies solo". "Dateline" with Katie Couric, www.nbcnews.com. May 5, 2004.
“The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war.”

Source : Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights: An Intensely Human and Brilliant Account of the World War; why American Entered the Conflict; what the Allies Fought For; and a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...”
“For forty years I have been married to one of the greatest women the world has ever produced. All I could produce - small as it may be - was love and loyalty.”
“If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.”
“On the day after 9/11, I walking through the smoke and the smells of New York. There were knots of policemen everywhere. As I went past one officer, he called out: "Hi, Magneto." That's an indication of X-Men's extraordinary reach.”
“My worry is that other advances in science may result in other means of mass destruction, maybe more readily available even than nuclear weapons. Genetic engineering is quite a possible area, because of these dreadful developments that are taking place there.”
“Oh what would Rome be without a plot?”

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