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Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#also #certain #confusion #creative #effective

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#critically #detachment #development #economy #imagined

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#fate #future #futures #learned #man

A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#day #every #every day #gold #gold standard

I've never been on Wall Street. And I care about Wall Street for one reason and one reason only because what happens on Wall Street matters to Main Street. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#because #been #care #happens #i

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#like #mystery #never #religion #should

Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#bankrupt #banks #commercial #go #investment

To the victor belong the responsibilities. ↗

— Al Bernstein

#responsibilities #victor

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#discovers #ever #his #loneliness #own

Faith is not a thing which one "loses," we merely cease to shape our lives by it. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#faith #lives #loses #merely #our