#mic

At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing. ↗

— Avi Arad

#comic #comic book #daredevil #know #known

Some comfort it would have been, could I, like a Faust, have fancied myself tempted and tormented of the Devil; for a Hell, as I imagine, without Life, though only Diabolic Life, were more frightful: but in our age of Downpulling and Disbelief, the very Devil has been pulled down, you cannot so much as believe in a Devil. To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility: it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#depression #age

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#background #bin #business #comes #company

Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency. ↗

— Lewis Thompson Preston

#economic #efficiency #judged #justice #loans

Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa. ↗

— Ron Wood

#close #go #got #growing #growing up

No matter whether you believe in luck or chance, the final decision is from yourself. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan. ↗

— Elgin Baylor

#dictionary #greatness #jordan #look #michael

Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#academic #anyone #being #careers #disciplines

Although the view that, once discovered, ideas can be imitated for free by anybody is pervasive, it is far from the truth. While it may occasionally be the case that an idea is acquired at no cost—ideas are generally difficult to communicate, and the resources for doing so are limited. It is rather ironic that a group of economists, who are also college professors and earn a substantial living teaching old ideas because their transmission is neither simple nor cheap, would argue otherwise in their scientific work. Most of the times imitation requires effort and, what is more important, imitation requires purchasing either some products or some teaching services from the original innovator, meaning that most spillovers are priced. ↗

— Michele Boldrin

#communication

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#brought #changes #economic #empires #every