"The very nature of economics is rooted in nationalism. ... It [was] developed ... in the hope of throwing light upon questions of policy. But policy means nothing unless there is an authority to carry it out, and authorities are national."

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Source : Joan Robinson (1962). “Economic philosophy”, p.124, Transaction Publishers

Joan Robinson

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“Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.”
“The Internet...has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready to serve every facet, every faction.”
“I like being a woman and having a womanly body.”
“From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.”

Source : Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”
“Empowerment of individuals and communities is absolutely central. Getting the community involved in organising their own destiny has got to be a key part of it.”
“Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.”

Source : James Branch Cabell (2001). “The Cream of the Jest”, p.9, Wildside Press LLC
“Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Humans are the only animals that draw. . . . Practically every human being draws at some time in childhood.”

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