"Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before."

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Source : Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Blue Mars”, p.105, Spectra

Kim Stanley Robinson

#Long Quotes #Psychology Quotes #Trying Quotes

“To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.”
“Well you know I'm very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. They're very concerned with spending, the deficit, the bailouts, you know all of those kinds of things. But I really think that the strength of the Tea Party is being a grassroots movement.”

Source : "Conservative Senator John Boozman Says No Thanks to Tea Party Caucus" by Jonathan Karl, abcnews.go.com. February 11, 2011.
“Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.”
“For some reason, I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame.”
“Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.”
“Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.”
“It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.”

Source : Interview with Warner Troyer in Toronto for the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, March 1977.
“I live my life until there's no more living to be done. Because you never know when it's going to stop. Wake up tomorrow and it could all be gone, bro. All the cars, all the motorcycles, everything. All the memories. We could go into a state of emergency, you know, and the world goes to war. The money won't count for nothing.”

Source : Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.

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