"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."

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Source : Hyman Minsky (2008). “Stabilizing an Unstable Economy, Part 3 - Economic Theory”, p.111, McGraw Hill Professional

Hyman Minsky

#Giving Quotes #Normal Quotes #Needs Quotes

“We like to imagine that Shaun is in George Romero's universe, that it's happening at the same time as the Pittsburgh outbreak.”

Source : "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.
“Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.”

Source : Charles Baudelaire (1951). “My heart laid bare, and other prose writings”
“True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.”
“A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.”
“Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.”
“When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.”
“The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say”
“I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.”

Source : "Q: Aren't you too brainy to be a TV presenter? A: Too brainy? That's why all my hair fell out" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2005.

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