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Wicksell Quotes By James M. Buchanan

One of the most exciting intellectual moments of my career was my 1948 discovery of Knut Wicksell's unknown and untranslated dissertation, 'Finanztheoretische Untersuchungen,' buried in the dusty stacks of Chicago's old Harper Library. — James M. Buchanan

Wicksell Quotes By Warren Buffett

Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are. — Warren Buffett

Wicksell Quotes By Aristotle.

Wit is educated insolence. — Aristotle.

Wicksell Quotes By Knut Wicksell

[Capitalism assumed] that from the beginning all men are equal. If that were so everyone would be equipped with the same working power, the same education and, above all, the same economic assets ... each person would [then] have only himself to blame if he did not succeed. — Knut Wicksell

Wicksell Quotes By Charles Dickens

Se there was a matter of half a ream of brown paper stuck upon me, from first to last. As I laid all of a heap in our kitchen, plastered all over, you might have thought I was a large brown-paper parcel, chock full of nothing but groans. Did I groan loud, Wackford, or did I groan soft?' asked Mr Squeers, appealing to his son. — Charles Dickens

Wicksell Quotes By Andy Weir

It was a ridiculous sequence of events that led to me almost dying, and an even more ridiculous sequence that led to me surviving. — Andy Weir

Wicksell Quotes By Mancur Olson

Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a pacifist. He opposed conscription because it deprived the citizen of the right to decide for himself whether or not to join in the fight. Keynes was exempt as a civil servant from conscription; so there is no need to question his sincerity. Apparently his belief in the rights of the individual against a majority of his compatriots was very strong indeed. — Mancur Olson

Wicksell Quotes By Thomas Paine

On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the right of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting it: thirdly, the mode of conducting it after it is declared. — Thomas Paine

Wicksell Quotes By Mark Indelicato

I think that androgyny is so amazing. Men's shows I can look at and say, 'I would wear that.' But there's things I see at Nina Ricci, and I'm like, 'They need to make that in men's,' or 'I want those pants.' Everything is inspiring. — Mark Indelicato

Wicksell Quotes By Jay Bell

Coming out is something you never stop doing. You start by telling your friends and family. Then you tell new acquaintances or coworkers who invite you out for a drink. Even the telemarketers who call and ask if my wife is home. You don't have to tell everyone you meet, of course, but coming out is something that accompanies your entire life. — Jay Bell

Wicksell Quotes By Julie Hedlund

Be the CEO of your own career. — Julie Hedlund

Wicksell Quotes By Marcel Proust

People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked. — Marcel Proust

Wicksell Quotes By James Joyce

Life, he himself once said.. is a wake, livit or krikit, and on the bunk of our bread-winning lies the cropse of our seedfather, a phrase which the establisher of the world by law might pretinately write across the chestfront of all manorwombanborn. — James Joyce

Wicksell Quotes By Derek Landy

What about you?" he asked, his words not much more than a mumble. "Regrets?"

"Many," Skuduggery said.

Tesseract's breath rattled in his chest. "That's the goo thing about living. You get to make up for past mistakes."

"Or make brand-new ones. — Derek Landy

Wicksell Quotes By Claire Vaye Watkins

She was brave from wine and unseasonable sunshine and the newfound closeness of home. — Claire Vaye Watkins