"The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but with the heritage of equipment accumulated by its forebears."

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Source : Robert L. Heilbroner (2011). “The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

Robert Heilbroner

#Secret Quotes #Growth Quotes #Heritage Quotes

“Immerse yourself in beauty and bathe yourself in positivity.”
“The night is young, and by the grace of magic, so are we.”

Source : Michael Buckley (2017). “The Fairy-Tale Detectives (The Sisters Grimm #1): 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.121, Abrams
“When I see two owls and then two more owls and conclude that I see four owls, I am responding to reasons, and it better not be my choice to believe that two plus two always equals four. If I am a rational person, I will have that belief by necessity, whether I wanted to or not. So it's not that strange to discuss responding to reasons out of necessity.”
“Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land.”

Source : "The Songlines". Book by Bruce Chatwin, 1987.
“You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set's two hours long.”
“I'm a pretty private person, so I'd like to say I'm a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut.”
“Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.”
“Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.”

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