"Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they dont even talk - sometimes not even with their girlfriend or boyfriend or friends - about what they are doing."

-- Thomas Piketty

#Girlfriend Quotes #Outsiders Quotes #Impossible Quotes

“The necessary precondition for the birth of science as we know it is, it would seem, the diffusion through society of the belief that the universe is both rational and contingent. Such a belief is the presupposition of modern science and cannot by any conceivable argument be a product of science. One has to ask: Upon what is this belief founded?”
“When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth.”
“I just thought Iâ€˜d never look good in what everybody else wore. So thereâ€™s no point trying. You just have to do what suits you, and it doesnâ€™t matter if you donâ€™t look like everybody else. Be you. Thatâ€™s our gift and weâ€™ve got to celebrate that, but it does take ages. I was wracked with self-doubt for years. I get spasms of it even now â€“ Iâ€™m not indelibly self-confident.”
“We're all eaters. That's our bond. Let's be real.”
“Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion.”
“That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law”
“[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.”
“What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?”

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