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A boom/bust process occurs only when market prices find a way to influence the so-called fundamentals that are supposed to be reflected in market prices.

In economics, contingent, time- and context-bound theories

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

If Grumpy Cat could bring herself to actually support something, it should be a no-brainer for mere humans.

More importantly, the tweet was funny. Come on, it's funny.

I imagine sarcasm to be a backward slanting font, each word leaning away from rather than into the next. These days it is getting harder and harder to tell reality from distortion, truth from satire, especially on the Internet.

Jackie Brown at twenty-six, with no expression on his face, said that he could get some guns.

States like these… constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.

Our nation is chosen by God and commissioned by history to be a model to the world of justice.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

To please everybody is impossible were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.

He is an intellectual who is unbeholden to the shibboleths of the professoriat and who has a deep appreciation for untutored popular piety.

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Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

It is hard to remain iconoclastic when standing waist-deep in the shards of smashed icons.

The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.

Avoidance of lunacy is an insufficient agenda." -George Will on Ronald Reagan, 3-6-1987

Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

It is the positive practice of freedom, not the negative struggle against particular oppression, that has lifted me above a mutilated existence.

Pride has no intrinsic substance, being no more than the name given to the soul devouring itself.

Vice is perhaps less dangerous to us than a certain staleness. There is softening of the brain. Softening of the heart is worse.

Le sacrifice de l'Homme à l'Humanité, de l'Humanité au Progrès, pour aboutir ridiculement au sacrifice du progrès lui-même à la dictature de l'Économique, tel fut le crime auquel restera toujours attaché le mot de la Démocratie, forme bourgeoise de la Révolution.