Graniero Marketplace Quotes & Sayings

If you want something hard enough, it just gets done. — Billy Strayhorn

Maybe the most provocative thing one can do - and I'm not the first one to do it - is to ask the moral and philosophical question: why are some people better than others? Why are some people more moral than others? — David Bezmozgis

Dignity is for boring people. — Jennifer DeLucy

She was a predator - a creature of the night who rejoiced in the thrill of the hunt. — Alan Kinross

Your mind is the most powerful magnet. What you think, you attract. — Debasish Mridha

We have waged war, or rather let a war be waged, against all of the animals we eat. This war is new and has a name: factory farming. — Jonathan Safran Foer

What you fight hard for never let go of easily! — Stephen Richards

Take the following potent and less-is-more-style argument by the rogue economist Ha-Joon Chang. In 1960 Taiwan had a much lower literacy rate than the Philippines and half the income per person; today Taiwan has ten times the income. At the same time, Korea had a much lower literacy rate than Argentina (which had one of the highest in the world) and about one-fifth the income per person; today it has three times as much. Further, over the same period, sub-Saharan Africa saw markedly increasing literacy rates, accompanied with a decrease in their standard of living. We can multiply the examples (Pritchet's study is quite thorough), but I wonder why people don't realize the simple truism, that is, the fooled by randomness effect: mistaking the merely associative for the causal, that is, if rich countries are educated, immediately inferring that education makes a country rich, without even checking. Epiphenomenon here again. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The next Prime Minister walking through that door will be me or (Labour Party leader) Ed Miliband, you can choose an economy that grows, that creates jobs, that generates the money to ensure a properly funded and improving NHS (National Health Service) ... and a government that will cut taxes for 30 million hard-working people ... or you can choose the economic chaos of Ed Miliband's Britain. — David Cameron

Mood's a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood. — Frank Herbert

Separation from evil is the necessary first principle of communion with Him ... Separation from evil is His principle of unity — John Nelson Darby

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce