"Capital' is not what capital is called, it is what its name is called."

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Joan Robinson

“I'm not a very good actor, so I break character all the time.”

Source : "Eric Andre On the Maniacal Genius of ‘MAN SEEKING WOMAN’". Interview with Cole Clay, freshfiction.tv.
“Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.”
“Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.”
“I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.”
“[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea. I'm very fond of it. It's done you no harm. Please don't attack it." That's not the way it goes. The hard but just rule is that if the ideas don't work, you must throw them away. Don't waste any neurons on what doesn't work. Devote those neurons to new ideas that better explain the data. Valid criticism is doing you a favor.”
“Cabinet members are soon overwhelmed by the insistent demands of running their departments. On the whole, a period in high office consumers intellectual capital; it does not create it....The less ministers know at the outset, the more dependent they are on the only sources of available knowledge; the permanent officials.”
“Everybody is blessed with a certain talent, you have to know what your talent is maximize it and push it to the limit.”
“I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.”

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