"Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science"

-- Robert Kuttner

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“The only reward in this game is winning. It's no fun to practice; it's no fun to play and lose.”
“I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.”
“If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.”
“Light had a way of keeping the monsters of my imagination at bay.”
“I didn't know enough about the Civil War or its lingering effects as we all should. It's really easy to think that the Civil War was the end of slavery, and the triumph of our collective conscience and humanity over oppression. Sadly, the oppression and systemic subjugation of people of color in this country still exists.”
“Magic doesn't happen often - not once in a blue moon ... I expect there isn't another magic ship like this one in the whole world.”

Source : "The Ship that Flew" by Hilda Lewis, (Ch. 2), 1939.
“The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.”

Source : Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company
“Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds of the unhappy Jews at the siege of Jerusalem hid themselves in the darkest and vilest subterranean recesses, and when, besides those who were hunted out, no less than two thousand were killed by being buried under the ruins of their hiding places."”

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