Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.
An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.
The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.
An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation
When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.
Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.
I don't believe that there is a human creature in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at some time or other has not been carried away by this passion (sc. envy) in good earnest; yet I never met with any one who dared own he was guilty of it but in jest.
What you meditate on is what you believe.
Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.
All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.