Try this: say the words "global, global, global" aloud several times, as fast as you can. You'll find yourself sounding like a turkey ("gobble, gobble, gobble").

Like a forensic accountant trying to solve a corporate fraud, following the trail of money around the circle is a good way to understand what actually happens as capitalism unfolds.

Competition-ruthless, unforgiving, to-the-death competition-is a crucial feature of capitalism.

Economics is a social science, not a physical science.

Economic systems come, and economic systems go. No economic system lasts forever. Capitalism is not likely to last forever, either.

We know that investment causes growth. But it is also true that growth causes investment.

Never trust an economist with your job. Learn about economics yourself. And make up your own mind about what might protect your job - and what might destroy it.

The problem is not scarcity; the problem is power.

Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism would probably still exist.

Everyone has an interest in the economy: in how it functions, how well it functions, and in whose interests it functions.

Proving that profit is economically and morally justifiable, rather than the result of exploitation, has been a central preoccupation of neoclassical economists.

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.

The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.

…deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It’s something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts.

We should not shed tears That is a surrender of the body to the heart It is only proof That we are beings that do not know What to do with out hearts

Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.