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Microeconomics is about money you don't have, and macroeconomics is about money the government is out of. ↗


— P.J. O'Rourke


#money

Lefever describes his financing plan with modesty: "'Our detailed budget is realistic, but does not take into account the inflation that may occur before September 1983. The one place it could cut or reduce is item 7, the simultaneous interpreter services, if these services could be provided gratis by the U.S. government.'" "In other words, the only way to make a saving on a U.S.-subsidized project is to take money out of another U.S.-subsidized column. ↗


— Christopher Hitchens


#money

The relationship between the people and their money in California is such that you can pluck almost any city at random and enter a crisis. San Jose has the highest per capita income of any city in the United States, after New York. It has the highest credit rating of any city in California with a population over 250,000. It is one of the few cities in America with a triple-A rating from Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s, but only because its bondholders have the power to compel the city to levy a tax on property owners to pay off the bonds. The city itself is not all that far from being bankrupt. ↗


— Michael Lewis


#financial-crisis-of- #money

That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I' am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain. ↗


— Cassandra Clare


#simon-lewis #movies

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another! ↗


— Douglas McGrath


#emma #movie-quote #mr-knightley #movies

Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes. ↗


— Gloria Allred


#humor #sense #sense of humor #yes

Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y. ↗


— Cassandra Clare


#mortal-instruments #nature

The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains, and afterward mountains were again mountains could be interpreted as an alleory about [the perpetual paradox that when one is closest to a destination one is also the farthest). ↗


— Rebecca Solnit


#mountains #nature #page- #nature

A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth. ↗


— Rebecca Solnit


#mountains #nature #page- #nature

I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours. ↗


— Leonard Nimoy


#compassion #death #empathy #mourning #objectivity






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