"Refusing to deal with numbers rarely serves the interests of the least well-off."

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Source : Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.577, Harvard University Press

Thomas Piketty

#Numbers Quotes #Interest Quotes #Wells Quotes

“The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere.”
“It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.”
“The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.”
“Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.”

Source : Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “Essays in Literary Interpretation”
“No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.”
“I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.”
“When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news.”

Source : Anthony Horowitz (2013). “Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin”, p.187, Penguin
“Running on different types of racetracks is challenging - not only for the drivers, but even more for the team members who have to make adjustments to the cars before each race.”

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