“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”
Friedrich Hayek
“The only exact testimony of a man is his actions.”
Thomas Jefferson (ironically, given his own life)
“True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.” Paul Sweeney (“Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in G&M December 20 2004).
“When I enrolled in a creative writing course, one of my first poems was returned with the following comment from the teacher: ‘Put more fire in the poems or vice versa.” H.A. Maxson quoted in Reader’s Digest Canadian edition December 2004
“Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.”
Wilson Mizner
“China’s first emperor tried to destroy collections of records earlier than his reign, so history could be seen to begin with him.” Michael Kesterton Social Studies: The Best of the Globe and Mail’s Daily Miscellany of Information
“Very few problems can or should be solved, in the sense of wiping out every vestige of them – not even crime or disease. Would anyone really spend half the Gross National Product to wipe out the last vestige of shop-lifting, or every minor skin rash?”
Thomas Sowell in Is Reality Optional?
“At age fifty, every man has the face he deserves.” George Orwell