Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in , say, physics, mathematics, or medicine -- the special pleading of selfish interests.

Every invalid is a physician.

Proverb

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

Mary Stewart

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

B. B. King

No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.

Kinky Friedman

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong

Jane Austen

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Thorstein Veblen

It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.

Arlen Specter

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

Ice Cube

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely -- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A decision without the pressure of consequence is hardly a decision at all.

Eric Langmuir.

I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.

Emile Henry Gauvreau