"Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room."

-- Madeleine Albright

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“The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation”
“Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.”
“Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.”
“This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.”

Source : A Tract on Monetary Reform ch. 3 (1923)
“Leave, with no answer. Move on to the next question.”

Source : Rachel Kushner (2014). “The Flamethrowers: A Novel”, p.383, Simon and Schuster
“What is most disturbing today is that we use rational methods to cultivate the tastes and values of the young in all kinds of educational, religious, and cultural institutions that are predicated on corporate practices and goals. Everything we do to, with, and for our children is influenced by capitalist market conditions and the hegemonic interests of ruling corporate elites. In simple terms, we calculate what is best for our children by regarding them as investments and turning them into commodities.”
“I strongly believe that people may not want, or may not be able, to start again from scratch, so giving old furniture a new lease of life is at the heart of my philosophy.”
“I'd have all the cars made in the Carolinas, and I'd ban the ones made in China.”

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