All economic activity is carried out through time. Every individual economic process occupies a certain time, and all linkages between economic processes necessarily involve longer or shorter periods of time.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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Category Archives: zz35 – Quote Unquote
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The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.
~ William Gibson
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Filtering out extraneous information is one of the basic functions of our consciousness.
~ Barry Schwartz
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The funniest things are the forbidden.
~ Mark Twain
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In the really hard cases you’re choosing between the disastrous and the catastrophic, and it’s hard to tell someone which one is which.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
~ Blaise Pascal
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
~ Henry James
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Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
~ George Orwell
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