"If a trade deficit is determined solely by rates of savings and investment, then the U.S. trade deficit will be impervious to a get-tough trade policy. Slapping higher tariffs on imports will only deprive foreigners of the dollars they would have earned by selling in the U.S. market."

-- Daniel T. Griswold

#Balance Quotes #Dollars Quotes #Saving Quotes

“No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.”

Source : Philipp Meyer (2013). “The Son”, p.145, Simon and Schuster
“Someone who wants to be with you, WILL be with you. End of story.”
“To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.”
“...idea at play here is that of â€œmorality.â€ When young women are taught about morality, thereâ€™s not often talk of compassion, kindness, courage, or integrity. There is, however, a lot of talk about hymens”
“...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.”
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”

Source : "Jorge Luis Borges 112th birthday marked by Google Doodle", www.telegraph.co.uk. August 24, 2011.
“Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots. Other people's thinking has always - both positively and negatively - jumpstarted my thinking. Quotes are also a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking. The quotes are part of those constructions and reflections. Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.”
“Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.”

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