
“Will we read next that government control of prices has created a shortage of sand in the Sahara?”
“Things That Ain’t So by Milton Friedman”, Newsweek (March 10, 1980) p. 79
“Buckley Heard By Tulane Unit”, John Roberts, Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana), (April 22, 1971) p. 22
“Will we read next that government control of prices has created a shortage of sand in the Sahara?”
“Things That Ain’t So by Milton Friedman”, Newsweek (March 10, 1980) p. 79
Source: "Rudolf Nurejew" in Der Spiegel https://www.spiegel.de/politik/rudolf-nurejew-a-30ce3698-0002-0001-0000-000014322047?context=issue (19 October 1980)
“If we saw tomorrow’s newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.”
Attributed to Kenneth Boulding in: Russell Ackoff " Russell Ackoff: A Lifetime of Systems Thinking; Editor’s note http://www.pegasuscom.com/levpoints/ackoff_a-lifetime-of-systems-thinking.html" in: Leverage Points, Issue 115.
1990s and attributed
“Many of the good things would never have happened if the bad events hadn't happened first.”
Source: The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying
On Communism, Thoughts of Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar https://books.google.com/books?id=6nolAQAAIAAJ, p. 107
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 3, The Curse of Civil Service Reform