#cs

Economists are generally negligent of their heroes. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#age

Some places will, however, be left behind. Not every city will succeed, because not every city has been adept at adapting to the age of information, in which ideas are the ultimate creator of wealth. ↗

— Edward Glaeser

#economics #ideas #age

The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away. ↗

— John Frohnmayer

#law #politics #art

In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic. ↗

— J.D. Greear

#love #skepticism #age

I felt there was no one as kind as you; no one who gave me reasons that I understood for doing what at first seemed so hard and--unnecessary. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#love #age

And where colours like A rainbow dance alive, as Wisdom’s arrows rain down And ages come to pass. ↗

— Marie Symeou

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The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. ↗

— Núria Añó

#ageing #aging #aging-gracefully #economy #getting-older

Are you going to give a speech?' she asked gaily. He gave a choked laugh. 'Of course not,' he said. 'Not for ages.' 'My cousin Davey gave one on his very first day!' ... 'In the Lords, I remember. It was about how he didn't like strawberry jam.' 'Be nice, Charles! It was a speech about fruit importation, which I admit devolved into something of a tirade.' She couldn't help but laugh. 'Still, you could talk about something more important.' 'Than jam? Impossible. We mustn't set the bar too high, Jane. ↗

— Charles Finch

#politics #speeches #age

Would you like to always be young? Then be an Anarchist, and live with the faith of hope, that age can't confine you to. ↗

— Brooke Bida

#age

There were a few middle-aged and even elderly women in the train, their silver-wiry hair and wrinkled faces, scourged by time and trouble, having almost a grotesque, certainly a pathetic, appearance in such a jaunty situation. In a true view, perhaps, there was more to be gathered and told of each anxious and experienced one, to whom the years were drawing nigh when she should say, 'I have no pleasure in them', than of her juvenile comrades. But let the elder be passed over here for those under whose bodices the life throbbed quick and warm. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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