You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Monthly Archives: August 2024
Austan Goolsbee was born
on this day in 1969
Austan Goolsbee – the American economist and University of Chicago professor – was born on August 18, 1969 – in Waco, Texas.
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Jason Furman was born
on this day in 1970
Jason Furman – the American economist and Harvard University professor – was born on August 18, 1970 – in New York City.
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The nineteenth century gave birth to two sets of events of a very different order of magnitude: the machine age, a development of millennial range; and the market system, an initial adjustment to that development.
― Karl Polanyi
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Campus Life at
Ulster University
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Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.
~ Karl Friedrich Schinkel
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
~ William Faulkner
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Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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That what we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The real struggle is between order and anarchy.
~ Edmund Cooper
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