“The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.”
[Pigs at the Trough, 1st edition, 2003, Crown Publishers, New York, ISBN 1-4000-4771-4, unspecified page, unspecified chapter]
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“You're looking at a guy who believes he can beat a rigged game.”
Dennis Kucinich (1946) Ohio politician
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Max Ernst (1891–1976) German painter, sculptor and graphic artist
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“I wanted the whole thing to sound like a carnival.”
Mike Scott (1958) songwriter, musician
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“Government must keep the ring, and leave it for individuals to play the game.”
Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1864–1929) British sociologist
Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter III, The Movement Of Theory, p. 34 .
“We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
" The Secret Sits http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-secret-sits/" (1942) <br class="br">1940s
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat
A History of Economics (1991), ch. 21
“when the phone rings
I too would like to hear words
that might ease
some of this.”
Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“Another ship ready to dock… the rigging comes loose… like Jennifer's Veil.”
Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician
Song lyrics, Mutiny (1993), Jennifer's Veil