"If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression."

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Source : Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.69, Penguin

Ben Bernanke

#Depression Quotes #Earthquakes Quotes #Want Quotes

“I am not interested in deconsecrating: this is a fashion I hate, it is petit-bourgeois. I want to reconsecrate things as much as possible, I want to re-mythicize them.”

Source : Oswald Stack, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1969). “Pasolini on Pasolini: interviews with Oswald Stack”
“To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.”

Source : Gretchen Rubin (2012). “Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life”, p.37, Harmony
“Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it.”
“He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up.”
“Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?”
“Growth isn't free it always has a cost...”
“Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.”

Source : Mat Johnson (2011). “Pym: A Novel”, p.8, Spiegel & Grau
“There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.”

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