"95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms."

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Ha-Joon Chang

#Common Sense Quotes #Essentials Quotes #Details Quotes

“How do you say no when a little kid is asking you for ice cream? I know I can't say no to it myself.”
“It is my conviction that physical courage at crucial moments comes from the sum of intellectual courage and integrity that you muster at that moment.”

Source : Michael Weisskopf (2016). “Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57”, p.188, Holt Paperbacks
“Hate is a terrible thing. It's a wasteful, stupid emotion. You can hate someone with all your heart, but it'll never do them a bit of harm. The only person it hurts is you. You can spend your days hating, letting it eat away at you, and the person you hate will go on living just the same. So, what's the point?”
“Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.”

Source : Scott Turow (2002). “Reversible Errors: A Novel”, p.243, Macmillan
“It saddens me to think that there are children in America who are hungry every day of their lives. No one can live - and grow - withoiut such a fundamental necessity as food. If we Americans reach out to our own communities, we could end this crisis.”
“I'm neither sexy nor a star.”
“The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed to go after what we want, not question whether we really need it.”
“America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore.”

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