“The tomb of him who would have made
The world too glad and free.”
Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859) British poet and critic
The Devil's Progress (1849)
Source: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 18
“The tomb of him who would have made
The world too glad and free.”
Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859) British poet and critic
The Devil's Progress (1849)
“The world probably would have been much better off had macroeconomics never been devised.”
Robert Higgs (1944) economist
" Is Macroeconomics Really Economics? http://blog.independent.org/2013/08/14/is-macroeconomics-really-economics/," The Beacon (Independent Institute, 14 August 2014). <br class="br">Context: The world probably would have been much better off had macroeconomics never been devised. Although I have in mind Keynesian macroeconomics above all, I include other types of macro models as well. I even include, somewhat reluctantly, the whole quantity theory approach descended from David Hume to the Friedmanites, now known as monetarism. … In short, among its many other deficiencies, as spelled out by Mises and his followers, monetarism’s most fundamental flaw is identical to the most fundamental flaw of Keynesian, Post-Keynesian, New Classical, and other theories advanced by macroeconomists during the past seventy or eighty years: not only does the theory leave out critical variables, but it is too simple, being expressed in huge, all-encompassing aggregates that conceal the real economic action taking place within the economic order.
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
Source: Song Song Man in the Mirror
Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist
Quoted from: Yoko Ono - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru to Beatles and Beach Boys died in The Netherlands, RollingStone magazine, 6 Mars 2008. 1047, 16, n°1047 http://www.bienfaits-meditation.com/en/the_beatles_and_tm/john_lennon/john_and_yoko_2008 <br class="br">Context: If Lennon were alive today, he probably would have reconciled with the man he accused of having "made a fool of everyone." John would have been the first one now, if he had been there, to recognise and acknowledge what Maharishi has done for the world and appreciate it.
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
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2000s, Promises to Keep (2008)
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 67
Context: What may make us more to enjoy in God than to see in Him that He enjoyeth in the highest of all His works? For I saw in the same Shewing that if the blessed Trinity might have made Man’s Soul any better, any fairer, any nobler than it was made, He should not have been full pleased with the making of Man’s Soul. And He willeth that our hearts be mightily raised above the deepness of the earth and all vain sorrows, and rejoice in Him.
Amos Tversky (1937–1996) Israeli psychologist
Source: As remembered by Don Redelmeir, Michael Lewis, "The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World". Penguin, 2016 (ISBN 9780141983035).