"Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity."

-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Educational Quotes #Common Sense Quotes #Commodity Quotes

“If economics wants to understand the new economy, it not only has to understand increasing returns and the dynamics of instability. It also has to look at cognition itself, something we have never done before in economics.”
“Let's put it this way: I am confident that Schengen will continue to be defended. And when it comes to repatriations, we have the same opinion.”
“There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.”

Source : "Kate Dickie: 'I've been angst-ridden all my life'". Interview With Jane Graham, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2010.
“I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up.”
“Comedians have the ability to feel other emotions.”
“Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.”
“I thought I knew Elton John, but then it was like, "Woah, Elton's a pimp! He's really amazing." And since Billy and Elton are homies, I'm finally getting it - the two piano boys.”
“I just love the idea of witches, in general. The whole concept of witches was to keep down the feminine rise in power that was happening, at the time. They created this concept of witches, so that they could burn women at the stake and keep them in their place, and now we've turned it around to empower women. That's very ironic. If they only knew that they created a weapon for us to use against them.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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