"Economists got away from really questioning how the world works, how decisions actually got made. If something doesn't conform to neoclassical models ... people are not somehow behaving themselves properly."

-- W. Brian Arthur

#People Quotes #Decision Quotes #World Quotes

“I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women.”

Source : Ti-Grace Atkinson (1974). “Amazon odyssey”
“And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea.”

Source : James Agee (2013). “Cotton Tenants: Three Families”, p.21, Melville House
“I'm real clear, you know? There's no fogginess.”
“The secret is to know how to lie" he used to say, " and to know when someone's lying to you". His father, Steve eventually decided, must have known how to lie.”
“Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so.”
“I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.”
“It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.”
“A true spiritual teacher knows more than he or she necessarily verbalizes, using temperance and love to be guided to say what is appropriate...”

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