#rve

The Obama administration's attempted short-term fixes, even with unprecedented monetary easing by the Federal Reserve, produced average GDP growth of just 2.2% over the past three years, and the consensus outlook appears no better for the year ahead. ↗

— Glenn Hubbard

#ahead #appears #attempted #average #better

I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh. ↗

— D. L. Hughley

#desk #funny #got #how #i

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#does #happiness #happy #necessary #perfectly

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror? ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#civil-rights #osama-bin-laden #surveillance #terrorism #war-on-terror

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#aristocratic #attitude #culture #does #emotions

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#create #culture #must #preserve

Yes, our tree has an interesting shape. The center branches reflect the shape of the zero curve. When extreme parts of the tree are reached the branching pattern changes to accommodate the mean reversion. ↗

— John Hull

#branches #center #changes #curve #extreme

Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news. ↗

— Brit Hume

#back #basic #coverage #far #get

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. ↗

— David Hume

#emotions #every #external #external objects #find

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers. ↗

— James Humes

#even #leader #leaders #leadership #mind