Julian Baggini Quotes

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.

Julian Baggini

Recitation: by Male by Female

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ScienceMoneyEconomicsActionWhy

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

John C. Maxwell

LiveMoneyControlSocietyDiet

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

LifeI AmMy LifeOthersUsefulAm

Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I arrived, the first elections for a civilian president in more than 9 years.

John Negroponte

PathDemocracySmallBackCountry

All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.

Robert Hass

ThinkingLossNewOldAbout

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

Angelina Jolie

LiveMyselfHappyPeopleFindNever

Capitalism works.

Michael Bloomberg

CapitalismWorks

Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.

Stephen Collins

ActingYourDevelopMediocreTVBit

I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it.

Spike Jonze

LoveThinkPictureDrawingCreate

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

ManThoughtsJumpBiteLikeFleas

I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.

Louise Brown

GoodCookingEatingBecauseBooks

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

Jay Inslee

WaterEnvironmentalAmericaLookAir

I became an engineer because I believe in the power of technology to enrich our lives.

Craig Federighi

TechnologyPowerBelieveI Believe

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