"What's the single most important thing to learn from an economics course today? Â What I tried to leave my students with is the view that the invisible hand is more powerful than the [un]hidden hand. Â Things will happen in well-organized efforts without direction, controls, plans. Â That's the consensus among economists. Â That's the Hayek legacy."

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Source : "The Commanding Heights". Book by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, 1998.

Lawrence Summers

#Powerful Quotes #Views Quotes #Hands Quotes

“I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.”
“When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.”
“And it´s so different for a lot of people I´ve known. One partner doesn´t love the other enough to stop drinking, or gambling, or running around with other women. One is the giver and one is the taker. The giver wishes the taker would stop.”

Source : Alma Katsu (2011). “The Taker”, p.365, Simon and Schuster
“Everyone feels lost and low. It's how a person acts that makes them different.”
“I jerk off inside books, and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you've probably never heard”
“I was the happiest and highest-paid straight woman in the business.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line of it, but it goes, 'The soul selects her own society.' I used to tell it to everybody. Once I quoted it to a friend of mine, and he said, 'Maybe, but the body gets thrown into bed with the goddamnedest people.”

Source : Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”
“In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment.”

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