Robert Higgs Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and petrochemical products. – Robert Higgs Antienergy Quotes Appreciation Quotes Depend Quotes Display Quotes Economies Quotes Extent Quotes Fossil Quotes Fuels Quotes Modern Quotes Pervasively Quotes Petrochemical Quotes Products Quotes Some doomsayers think the collapse will be triggered by runaway government spending, excessive taxation, oppressive regulation, food shortages, fuel shortages or natural disasters such as deadly pandemics or lethal changes in the world’s climate. If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a flop, there will be no value to GDP. But government spending all gets counted as contributing to economic growth. That’s why in the early days of creating these measurements, some people didn’t want to count government spending.
Ellen Ullman What happens to people like myself, who have been involved with computing for a long time, is that you begin to see how many of the ‘new’ ideas are simply old ones coming back into view on the swing of the pendulum, with new and faster hardware to back it up. – Ellen Ullman
Albert EllisBestFutureLife The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. – Albert Ellis
Russell Freedman I visited the archeological site at the northern tip of Newfoundland. There is no question about it. It has been definitely determined that the Vikings were there for about 10 years – specifically, Leif Erikson and his extended family. – Russell Freedman
Alfredo Di Stefano The whistles against Cristiano Ronaldo? The people in the crowd are the ones who pay, and they are always right. – Alfredo Di Stefano
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