Externalities In Microeconomics Quotes & Sayings

As is now generally admitted, a Soviet bomb would not have been achieved for several years more but for the success of Soviet espionage in obtaining secret information from Western scientists associated with the Manhattan Project. That is to say, political ideas in the minds of certain capable physicists and others took the form of believing that to provide Stalin with the bomb was a
contribution to world progress. They were wrong. And their decisions show, once again, that minds of high quality in other respects are not immune to political or ideological delirium ... In the Soviet case, those involved thought they knew better than mere politicians like Churchill. They didn't. — Robert Conquest

Eli Willard just looked at her for a long moment, and then he announced, 'Lady of the Lake strikes iceberg in mid-Atlantic; 215 drown. New York City fire destroys 700 buildings. Japanese earthquake kills 12,000. Worldwide cholera epidemic kills millions. Wages rise, but prices rise faster. Financial crash occurs on Van Buren's 36th day in office. Nation begins first great depression. Bank failures and closings spread like plague. 200,000 are unemployed. Business bankrupt; only pawnbrokers prosper. Van Buren declares ten-hour days on all federal jobs. There. Does that make you feel any better? — Donald Harington

Butterflies are a lot like rainbows: They're phenomenally beautiful in real life, yet no graphic representation can do them justice; ergo, it's best to forgo. — Jen Lancaster

Do not fear for me, for I was born only once and i shall die only once. — Barbara Wood

As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander. — John Andre

If I'd had a nickel for every time Rachel had said whatever, we wouldn't have had to steal Warren Fairchild's gold. — Michelle Zink

If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron ... my answer is "How should I know?" ... I am not dismayed by ultimate mysteries ... I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph. — Martin Gardner

Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss. — David Levithan

But as we've said before, there is great power in all of us, if only we channel that power into action. — Thomas Wheeler

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice! — Honore De Balzac

subordinate groups are often pitted against one another in ways that draw attention away from the system of privilege that hurts them all. — Allan G. Johnson

Protect the downside. Worry about the margin of safety. — Peter Cundill