#pit

The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#economic-stimulus-act-of- #nature

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#enjoyment #few #friendship #greatest #highest

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever. ↗

— James Agate

#going #i #me #never #nothing

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#bad #books #broke #fate #fire

He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#banking #banks #capitalism #economics #leguin

Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens. ↗

— Tom Allen

#attempt #attention #citizens #continued #darfur

Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#does #even #exist #hospitals #long

You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun. ↗

— Sparky Anderson

#because #clubs #could #fun #give

I have yet to take capital losses on any company. Then again, it's still early. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#any #capital #company #early #i

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#accept #apart #ceases #christ #got