"All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness."

-- Richard Lamm

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“People would be a lot more skeptical if they understood that there is an incredible amount of chance in the results that you observe for active managers. So the distribution of outcomes is enormously wide - but that's exactly what you'd expect by chance with lots of active managers who hold imperfectly diversified portfolios. The really good portfolios contain a lot of really lucky picks, and the really bad portfolios contain a lot of really unlucky picks as well as some really bad ones.”

Source : "A Father of Modern Finance" by Rebecca Rolfes, www.chicagobooth.edu. 2013.
“No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.”
“Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.”
“Be the trouble you want to see in the world.”

Source : "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,
“An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force.”
“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
“When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.”

Source : "Stupid In America" by John Stossel, www.foxnews.com. September 16, 2011.
“The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.”

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