“I am constantly asked what we are going to do with the [Nobel economics] prize money – $1.2 million before Uncle Sam takes his very large bite. The answer to that is a simple lesson in economics. Wants always expand to take advantage of new opportunities, which explains why consumers in rich countries feel no more satiated than do those in poor countries. My wife and I won’t have the slightest difficulty spending the prize money.”

Gary Becker in Business Week November 2 1992 [but if so then the marginal utility of new income is zero which surely is not true]

“Feeling badly done to is not a saleable commodity.”

Another of mine, from September 16, 2005 (these days I’m not so sure, but it still shouldn’t be)

“You can pray all you want but eventually David had to pick up a stone and act against Goliath”

A sign a woman was holding at an unidentified protest in an image emailed by a friend without source.

“Homegoroshi: The Japanese technique of humiliating a person with exaggerated compliments.”

Globe & Mail September 25, 2000

“History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”

Often attributed to Mark Twain in various forms (for instance “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme”) but there is no evidence that he said it (see for instance https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/) although he obviously should have.

“There’s this psychoanalytic adage: If you don’t understand the motivation, look at the consequences and infer the motivation.”

Jordan Peterson in a podcast with Michael Shellenberger (citing the example of Hitler wreaking murderous havoc then committing suicide).

“In 1913 a sign hung in the lobby of the Stag Hotel in Golden City, Ontario, stated succinctly, WE KNOW THIS HOTEL IS ON THE BUM. WHAT ABOUT YOURSELF?”

Peter Unwin in The Beaver October-November 2004

“Reach for the stars even if you have to stand on a cactus.”

Susan Longacre in “Quotable Quotes” in Reader’s Digest Canadian Edition March 2006