"Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science either."

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Source : "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chretien, Chapter Five: A Balancing Act (p. 108), 1985.

Jean Chretien

#May Quotes #Economics Quotes

“Every tree and plant in the medouw seemed to be dancing, those with average eyes would see as fixed and still.”
“Dialogue saves me. I love writing the conversations between my paper people. For some reason, that is the easiest thing for me. It's like I am a transcriptionist for the voices in my head. I can hear them talking (mentally) and have a gift for getting it on the page.”
“The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.”
“In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.”
“...and he kissed her and kissed her and kissed her, little by little by little.”
“During the reign of Rameses III (the Twentieth Dynasty) Egypt saw a flowering of its civilization and the harp became the royal instrument of priests and kings. Often times they had as many as 21 strings. Under the manipulation "the Minstrels of the Gods" the music was of rare potency. "Musical Medicine" was an actuality. Healing, along with numerous so-called "supernatural feats" was attributed to this art.”
“There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice”
“The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future generations can see how horrible life was.”

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