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Perhaps justified violence is better than peace at any price.

It is an inflexible law that all living things must seek to dominate their environment.

Only ideals are dangerous.

But no one can be immune to the laws of chance.

There is only the eternal serial moment of now. It contains the total pattern, the complete history.

For death is only a loss of radiance, and birth is only the beginning of a separate journey.

It is the nature of men to act negatively but to dream and hope positively.

But it may be that there is happiness in the very things we rejected - in work and responsibility. In the rearing of children and in the challenge of permanent love.

Markets have a strong tendency to reinforce the status quo. The free market dictates that countries stick to what they are already good at. Stated bluntly, this means that poor countries are supposed to continue with their current engagement in low-productivity activities. But their engagement in those activities is exactly what makes them poor. If they want to leave poverty behind, they have to defy the market and do the more difficult things that bring them higher incomes—there are no two ways about it.

[J]argons that facilitate communication within the profession makes its communication with outsiders more difficult. ...[A]ll technical professions have an incentive to make themselves look more complicated... so they can justify the high fees... for their services.

Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor.

Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroeconomic policy on the global scale is a bit like that. It is Keynesianism for the rich countries and monetarism for the poor.