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If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

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It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government's overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action during the Great Recession forestalled a much worse economic fate. ↗

— Mark Zandi

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The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it. ↗

— Mark Zandi

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I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish. ↗

— Lefty Gomez

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My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home. ↗

— Michel Gondry

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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers. ↗

— Ian Hart

#convention #dads #desire #drama #fathers

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

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