Presc Quotes & Sayings

One of the most important skills of the economist, therefore, is that of simplification of the model. Two important methods of simplification have been developed by economists. One is the method of partial equilibrium analysis (or microeconomics), generally associated with the name of Alfred Marshall and the other is the method of aggregation (or macro-economics), associated with the name of John Maynard Keynes. — Kenneth E. Boulding

I don't care what you do - baseball or politics - George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years - Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids. — Andy Van Slyke

Enlightening people with facts is also a form of social service. — Rohith Thatchan C

Finally, we spend lots of money. Spending on jails and prisons by state and federal governments has risen from $6.9 billion in 1980 to nearly $80 billion today. Private prison builders and prison service companies have spent millions of dollars to persuade state and local governments to create new crimes, impose harsher sentences, and keep more people locked up so that they can earn more profits. Private profit has corrupted incentives to improve public safety, reduce the costs of mass incarceration, and most significantly, promote rehabilitation of the incarcerated. — Bryan Stevenson

To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer. — T. S. Eliot

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine. — Nora Ephron

He who gives you the diameter of your knowledge,presc ribes the circumference of your activities. — Louis Farrakhan

Happy are they who can please and delight their senses with things insensate - and who can live off their death. — Michel De Montaigne