Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
~ William Faulkner
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Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
~ William Faulkner
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Much of human progress has involved reducing the time and energy and the number of processes to obtain the necessities of life. In the past few decades however, that long process of simplifying and bundling economic offerings has been reversed. Increasingly, the trend has moved back toward time-consuming foraging behavior.
~ Barry Schwartz
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If I had to pick between knowing just a little about a lot of folks and knowing everything about a few, I’d opt for the long, wide-angle shot, I think.
~ Walter Kirn
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Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.
~ Che Guevara
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In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer’s ink.
~ Albert Camus
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As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.
~ Milan Kundera
The tug of war between conservatives and progressives can only affect the speed, not the direction, of contemporary developments.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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