Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
BILL VAUGHANSomeday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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On the one hand, it’s common sense it’s hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
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By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.
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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
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What they’ll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they’ll vomit, and they’ll come back and eat their body weight again. And they’ll vomit. And they’ll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.
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Most of us wait until we’re in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we’d wake up and say, “Anything I can do for You today, Lord?”
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Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.
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We didn’t used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.
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