"Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the political leader, as a prophylactic against popular fallacies."

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Henry Calvert Simons

#Leader Quotes #Political Quotes #Students Quotes

“It must be those brief moments when nothing has happened - nor is going to. Tiny moments, like islands in the ocean beyond the grey continent of our ordinary days. There, sometimes, you meet your own heart like someone you've never known.”
“If you'd see my schedule, you'd know I have no time to slow down.”
“Bush, Blair and Rumsfeld; they are the funny trio.”
“In order to be discipled by others a person must have a trusting heart, one that listens even when it doesn't fully comprehend or see the end result.”
“It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration.”
“Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.”

Source : Witold Gombrowicz (2011). “Cosmos: A Novel”, p.16, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“When the Iron Curtain fell, all of the West rejoiced that the East would become just as free as the West. It was never supposed to be the other way around.”
“You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

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