Saturday Quotes
If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France
Robert H. Frank, economist
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Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you’ll have to ram it down people’s throats.
Howard Aiken, computer scientist (1900-1973)
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If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.
Thomas Watson
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We are at a very serious moment dealing with very serious issues, and we are not focusing on the name you give to potatoes.
French embassy spokespersonne back in 2003, during the ramp up to the US-led Iraqi invasion, when asked what the French government thought of the US Congress’ decision to rename french fries to freedom fries on their cafeteria menu.
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From my most admired human…
Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct. The mandates have no sanction but that of the last war. Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home.
(Published 26/11/1938 in Harijan, Mohandas K. Gandhi’s magazine. It can be found most readily on page 108 in Martin Buber’s book, A Land of Two Peoples (editor Paul R. Mendes-Flohr) A Galaxy Book (GB756), Oxford University Press, New York ISBN 0-19-503426-0.
This was taken from a comment to Timothy Garton Ash’s article inthe Guardian.
PS: I am a Jew and peace loving. It isn’t easy to know what is right with any degree of intellectual or moral confidence. What a mess!)
