...Today the invisible hand seems confused and indecisive...Ideology and rhetoric increasingly guide policy decision, often bearing little relationship to factual reality. And the America we once knew seems divided and angry, defiantly embracing unreason.

In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.

Charles Darwin

For economist the real world is often a special case.

Edgar R. Fiedler

Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.

Yogi Berra

Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

Walter Gropius

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

Johann von Goethe

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

John Milton

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

He who gives while he lives, get to know where it goes.

Percy Ross

I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.

James Chanos

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

Arthur Holly Compton

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Howard Nemerov

There's a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the body.

Margot Kidder