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- Dorothea Brande
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Tags: Productivity
“Authors of economics books, essays, articles, and political platforms demand interventionist measures before they are taken, but once they have been imposed no one likes them. Then everyone—usually even the authorities responsible for them—call them insufficient and unsatisfactory. Generally the demand then arises for the replacement of unsatisfactory interventions by other, more suitable measures. And once the new demands have been met, the same scenario begins all over again.”
- Ludwig von Mises, A Critique of Interventionism
Tags: Quotation, Regulation
“People sometimes say ‘But one single can?’ One single can is of great importance. Because 99 is not 100, and that single one will make the difference.”
- Valter, as seen in the extremely uplifting movie Waste Land.
“It is significant that none of the most passionate advocates of aid for Africa are African. Aid can speed up development that people have already decided to carry out for themselves and have the capacity to do. It is also essential for vaccination campaigns and for ARVs to combat HIV/AIDS. Emergency aid is obviously vital to help the victims of war or natural disasters, but that is as true in Surrey as in Somalia. Small amounts of aid can also work well in local contexts. But aid from the outside cannot transform whole societies, whole countries. That can only come about through producing things and trading them or doing something someone else wants to pay for. Ironically, it is the capitalist West that still sees Africa as a continent that needs aid, while Communist and former Socialist governments like China and India see it as a business opportunity.”
- Richard Dowden, Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles.
Tags: Africa, Aid, HIV, International Aid, Quotation
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
- Heraclitus, On the Universe.
Tags: Heraclitus, Quoate, Quotation
Celebrity Product Endorsement in the 1800s
February 3, 2012 in Books, Quotation | No comments
“The first customers bough pairs of telephones for communication point to point: between a factory and its business office, for example. Queen Victory installed one at Windsor Castle and one at Buckingham Palace (fabricated in ivory; a gift from the savvy [Alexander Graham] Bell.”