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“We [The Replacements] never made any money on tour. None of us came out of the school of economics. We took it for granted that a rock and roll band gets ripped off. We've tried to shake that tree a couple of times, but what can we do? You look back, when you're sort of idle in your middle years, and think, we should have made some money.”

Thinking Should Years Looks Made School Tree Middle Rocks Couple Band Economics Should Have Granted Shakes Idle Rock And Roll Back When Ripped Replacements

Author:Paul Westerberg

“Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing poverty. A universal paean was raised in praise of growth. Growth was going to solve all problems. No need to bother about poverty. Growth will lift up the bottom and poverty will disappear without any need to pay attention to it. The economists, who should have known better, fell in with the same cry.”

Source: Contributions to Modern Economics

“We girls should have to change a tire or take a 'change your oil' class in high school instead of taking home economics, because we'd benefit from that.”

Should Home School Girl Class Benefits High School Economics Should Have Oil Tire Home Economics

Author:Teri Hatcher

“Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and economics and things of that sort in college more, but I didn't.”

Should Philosophy College Economics Should Have Looking Back Pursued

Author:Dan Quayle

“I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it.”

Ifs Should Economics Should Have Prize Nobel Nobel Prize

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“No one should have to get a PhD in economics to survive in this economy.”

Should Economy Economics Should Have Phds

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works”

Should Trying May Ends Liberty Economic Economics Should Have Libertarian Rejects Faith In God Legislators Acknowledgment

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff - watch out!”

“Home-making today should have a background of scientific training because only in this way can real efficiency be achieved. The average girl wants to be able to keep her house with the least possible strain, and in order to do this she must have good training. This can best be achieved by taking a good course in home economics.”

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Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality fo result. Its equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.”

Should Philosophy Political Opportunity Differences Results Fairs Ideals Economics Should Have Fundamentals Equality Access Equality Of Opportunity

Author:Robert Reich

“I have a dream that Africa should have one bloc - north to south - we could trade freely, people can move freely and that makes business sense.”

People Should Dream Moving Economics Should Have Trade South Business Sense

Author:Mohammed Dewji

“We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.”

Should Economics Tools Should Have Structure Architect Eyebrows

Book:Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture

Source: Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture