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Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off

Money quote:
"If high-revving women are sexually frustrated, let them have some sort of French arrangement where they have two men, ... occasional fun-loving boyfriend the kids never see."

Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off - The Atlantic (July/August 2009)




Rational Markets

"The markets resemble the Star Wars bar scene more than they do the economics faculty lounge at Princeton."

Reminder from Theodore Roosevelt

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”


"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910