The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Martin Zimet

Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

Roger Ebert

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Blaise Pascal

There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.

Roberto Cavalli

Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.

Marcel Proust

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

Henri Nouwen

Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations, undermined the courageous work of Israeli dissenters and most unforgivably increased the risk of another merciless IDF assault.

Norman G. Finkelstein

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

James Duffecy

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

...a force that operates year-in and year-out, whenever we are at high employment, to push up prices. It's a price creep, not a price gallop; but the bad thing about it is that, instead of setting in only after you have reached overfull employment, the suspicion is dawning that it may be a problem that plagues us even when we haven't arrived at a satisfactory level of employment.describing cost-push inflation

Paul A. Samuelson, (interview),

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

Madame de Stael

Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.

Alan Dundes