"I love teaching people how to handle their money and I've built a brand on that skill."

-- Michelle Singletary

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“Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption.”
“It's odd to look out there and see a bunch of Mini-Mes," says Williams. "You're wondering what possessed them to do such a thing . . . It sort of does a reverse psychology on you. You'd think you'd be like `Hey, all these people want to look like me. I feel pretty cool.' But actually it makes you feel more self aware and I'm not really fond of that.”
“I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.”
“In America, we need to develop communitywide structures of democratic ownership, we need to work out cooperative development, we need to work out participatory management, we need new ecological strategies developed at the local city, state, regional level.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together.”
“The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.”

Source : "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.
“Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.”

Source : Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books
“The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 27, 2015

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