"Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises."

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Source : Charles Wheelan (2010). “Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

Charles Wheelan

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“What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.”
“I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.”
“My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.”
“...the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows...”
“Faith exists when absolute confidence in that which we cannot see combines with action that is in absolute conformity to the will of our Heavenly Father. Without all three--first, absolute confidence; second, action; and third, absolute conformity--without these three all we have is a counterfeit, a weak and watered-down faith.”
“I went to the brink many times. A couple of times I thought "I'm gone, This is it." But then you would just keep working. I think if you're close to the brink and just make sure that you work twice as hard and put twice as much effort into everything and the people around you and everything, you should come through.”
“You can't legislate sobriety.”
“You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things.”

Source : Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople

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