"Economists are very good at saying that something cannot go on forever, but not so good at saying when it will stop."

-- Herbert Stein

#Forever Quotes #Goes On Quotes #Very Good Quotes

“I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.”
“The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.”
“...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.”
“How do we work together? For if we want liberation for women, then we're committed to building a society in which these distances--of class and economics--dissolve, and all our authentic differences--cultures, personalities, sexualities, talents, and aspirations--emerge and are equally nourished.”
“Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people dont seem to care about the fat aspect.”
“As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much.”
“why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.”
“Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.183, Cambridge University Press

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